[IMC-Video] retransmission event, schedule and more information...

[Mick Fuzz]

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London - October 2006 - 13,14,15 
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Hi there, 

There's now a schedule of events with
alot of info about the event out there now! - Do pass
it on to anyone you think might be interested. All
this infomation and more is also on
http://www.retransmission.org.uk

Mick
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Invitation to participate in Re:Transmission

Re:Transmission is a gathering of citizen journalists,
video makers, artists, educators, programmers and web
producers who are developing online video distribution
tools for social justice and media democracy.

Web: http://www.retransmission.org.uk

All welcome but training and workshop places are
limited so please book early.

RSVP to: r_transmission AT yahoo.com

Ways to get involved:

Adele: 07733 227 335 - Simon: 07904 066 702 - Mick:
07913882193

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Summary of Events
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NB Workshops, screenings and presentations at the
Limehouse are free, but donations most welcome to
cover venue costs. BFI events are ticketed, see below.

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This page of summaries is designed to give you the
information you need to choose which workshops you
need to attend. Additional information is available on
some of the workshops on the website. 

Please have a look at the schedule here if you wish.
http://retransmission.org.uk/workshops 

=== Presentations ===

==== Offline TV====

The offline TV project using Broadcast Machine to
distribute video content via Bittorrent and Media RSS
feeds. Hamish and Richard have set up a BETA channel.
This will be a presentation followed by a Q and A. 

* http://www.undercurrents.org/offlinetv/

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

====Clearer Channel====

The clearerchannel website is a database of over 400
films with a social justice focus. The aims is to
provide independent screeners of films with an easy to
use database of films to download and screen to an
audience. The focus is on Independent expression,
direct action, sustainable alternative to mainstream
culture. 
Channels of content themed by the video production
collectives and by theme are made available as
webpages and Media RSS channels for use in video
showcashing software like the Democracy player. 

http://www.clearerchannel.org

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

====OneWorldTV====

OneWorldTV (http://tv.oneworld.net) is an open
documentary platform showcasing videos from around the
world on issues including human rights, sustainable
development and the environment. OneWorldTV encourages
contributions from independent filmmakers, video
activists, community groups, NGOs and anyone else with
a perspective or experience to share. Launched in
2001, OneWorldTV is part of the OneWorld Network
(http://oneworld.net) and is governed by the OneWorld
International Foundation (UK registered charity no.
1095287).

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

====ifiwatch.tv====
[http://www.ifiwatch.tv Eyes on IFIs] is a pilot
database of independent film and video critical of the
International Financial Institutions. It is linked
integrally with [http://www.ifiwatchnet.org
IFIWatchnet] which networks organisations worldwide
monitoring the IFIs (which include the World Bank,
IMF, regional development banks etc.) 
Eyes on IFIs aims to develop into the portal to as
wide a range as possible of online media critical of
the IFIs - and as such to provide a model for other
issue-based networked portals to online material.
presented by zoe young, co-ordinator of eyes on ifis.

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

====Four Docs====

FourDocs is the broadband channel for documentary from
Channel 4. Anyone can upload four minute
documentaries, whatever their level of experience. Or
you can just watch the docs and review them.

"We wanted to establish a new medium for the public to
air their views on issues they felt passionate about.
FourDocs is the first time that anyone has given both
practical support and a high profile platform for
people to make and display their own personal
documentaries. The site is free to use and open to
everyone, whatever their level of experience." 

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

====Engage Media====
EngageMedia is a website and a network for
distributing social justice and environmental video
from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Launched at the beginning of October the site is based
on the Plone content managment system. EngageMedia
have been working on the video functionality of Plone
helping add features such as easy creation of vodcast
channels for members and topics, bittorent support and
Creative Commons licensing. EngageMedia collaborated
to put on the Rome Transmission meeting. 

Presentation by And. | http://engagemedia.org

* start time: FRI 15.45
* end time: FRI 17.30

==== Wireless TV ====
Wireless TV - an experimental set up ]

This is an experimental project to see if a TV signal
can be distributed over legal WIFI technology. The
idea TV broadcast going on for the duration of the
Re:TX event.

* start time FRI 2.00
* end time FRI 3.00

==== RDF Standardisation project presentation and
consultation ====

A presentation of a draft metadata standard to allow
selected participating projects to use joint search
and distribution tools. 

* start time: SUN 16.00
* end time: SUN 18:00

* Any tools or preparation required: participants
should understand the basics of metadata, RSS etc, and
be in a position to engage with the process of
agreeing and implementing standards on a practical
level.

=== Discussion / Strategy based Workshops ===

==== Video on the Net Strategy - Future
possibilities====

Mainstream Media is facing a crisis. New technologies
and projects are converging to democratise access to
video distribution on a global level, challenge the
dominance of top-down broadcast media and give voice
to range of critical social and environmental issues.
This "shattering/transformation" of the mainstream
will mean small (or big) changes in the way media is
produced/distributed.
Can alternative media make the most of this in the
long and short term. What are our best strategies for
increasing our visibility? 

* start time: FRI 17.30
* end time: FRI 19.30

==== Documentation of Video on the Net Strategy====

Following the Transmission meeting in Rome, there is
this collaborative page which is in progress.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Video

We'll look at how how well these help pages, and
existing documentations help those seeking to
distribute their video work on the Net. And after
pooling ideas and resources, try to work out a plan to
make the existing resources better and more
accessible. Includes projects like NGO in a Box, and
the OurVideo toolkit, and other online documentation
projects. 

* start time: FRI 13.00
* end time: FRI 14.00

==== Creating content for Online TV ====

While the technology is here, the level of quality of
online Tv are debatable. How can we create
independent, watchable and sustainable content week
after week? Amongst other things we'll tackle ideas of
Live Tv in this context, training [especially as a
catalyst for production] and Internet news. 

* start time: SAT 9.00
* end time: SAT 10.30

==== Net Neutrality and Creative commons ====

What is net neutrality and what does it mean to us.
Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the
Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called
Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T,
Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work
best for you -- based on what site pays them the most.
What campaigns exist to counter this?

Creative Commons and online Video. How far have we
come. How effective has using creative commons been?
How can we make creative commons work for the Video
producers and create a needed revenue stream for them?
How does working with Creative commons content effect
the way we work collaboratively?

* start time: SAT 10.30
* end time: SAT 12.00


==== How Online Video Production and Collaboration can
Work. ====

Creating a DVD or a programme for Tv with a
decentralised production team communicating and
exchanging Video content, research and subtitles via
the Internet is now possible.
more info:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Convergence_and_collaboration_model

If there is interest at this gathering, we could pick
a specific theme or scope of the collaborative project
[DVD or online showcase], and set up a workflow and
tasks to be carried out.

* start time: SUN 11.30
* end time: SUN 12.30

==== Do no harm : Video activism and issues of
exploitation. ====

When coming together in the name of promoting online
media for 'social justice' etc, we have a
responsibility as organisations and individuals to pay
attention to what content we are collecting and
spreading and why; primarily to ensure that we're
protecting people..... above all, doing no harm. 

Especially with more and more people inexperienced in
journalistic ethics now enabled to use online video
services, we are making an effort to develop and
spread awareness of certain basic principles such as -
Informed consent. If our projects stand apart from the
corporate media in theory and name, this should demand
a different, more ethical way of working in practice.
It is always going to be hard to achieve, let alone
enforce, any sort of consensus given cultural
relativity, non binding nature of guidelines etc, but
we do have to think seriously about the Licensing for
Sales and also Safety (both of which can be very
different in Europe and North America to the Global
South, and Ethical issues of dignity and
revictimization - especially in a cultural context of
open-ended Re-use and Remixing of 'activist' footage.
What can we do do help make sure that we are
protecting both the people featured in footage and the
people who produce such material, often at great
expense and risk to themselves?

* start time: SUN 10.30
* end time: SUN 11.30
* Any tools or preparation required: Please read
through the notes from re:transmission discussion on
these matters, look at Witness's website, think about
useful and realistic ways forward!

=== Skill Sharing Workshops ===

==== Metadata, what it can do. Why is it Important
====

A presentation on the importance of standardising
metadata to allow projects to use joint search and
distribution tools. The presentation will explain what
metadata is, what it can enable, and why it is so
important to the future of online video. 

* start time: SUN 11.30
* end time: SUN 12.30

==== RDF Standardisation project presentation and
consultation ====

A presentation of a draft metadata standard to allow
selected participating projects to use joint search
and distribution tools. 

A current concern for many media producers is to
better share the online video material they create
using available digital/networking technologies. A key
step in facilitating this process will be agreement on
means to organise content for easy access and
exchange. At the first Transmission meeting, which
took place in Rome in June 2006, it was agreed that
there was a need to develop some common metadata
standards that would enable coherent information
exchange.

http://www.transmission.cc/wiki/Notes_from_the_CMS_Collaboration_workshop
http://www.transmission.cc/wiki/notes_from_online_video_strategy_-_convergence_-_workshop

* start time: SUN 11.30
* end time: SUN 12.30
* Any tools or preparation required: participants
should understand the basics of metadata, RSS etc, and
be in a position to engage with the process of
agreeing and implementing standards on a practical
level.

==== Screenings Database working group ====

Using CiviCRM to create a Screenings Database of
venues and collective who are screening Independent
films. This can act as a valuable tool to visiting
film makers, or those wishing to distribute their
films to hard to find places. 

* start time: SUN 15.00
* end time: SUN 16.00

==== Command line video encoding for Mac and Linux
====

Using command line applications like ffmpeg and
mencoder to encode video content. This may be a bit if
a jump for some users. However as more and more people
start to use linux, maybe it's time to forget the
often confusing graphical interfaces for encoding, and
embrace these very powerful tools.

* start time: SAT 10.30
* end time: SUN 12.00

==== Encoding Video on Windows using free software
====

With Windows still sadly enjoying the lions share of
the home market, it's important to be able to use free
software that work on Windows to encode Video for the
Internet. This is a no nonsense guide to do just that.
Includes

* Encoding to get your video ready for the internet,
xvid, mp4, wmv (!)
* Encoding from a DVD to a CD
* A Way of squashing a DVD with all menus etc down to
1GB size which is realistically downloadable to be
either played in media plauyer or expanded back to a
conventional DVD

* start time: SAT 10.30
* end time: SAT 12.00

==== Creating subtitle files and translating them.
====

The process for creating subtile file to create a
multi language DVD is straight forward and allows
people to use the Internet to collaborate on the
process. This workshop will deal with the issues of
creating a global network of volunteer film
translators. The workshop will be in 2 halves, one
theoretical and one practical. 

* start time: SAT 9.00
* end time: SAT 10.30

==== Creating Media RSS channels [aka Podcasting ]
====

If you are hosting your video on the Internet then it
definately makes sense to have a RSS channel of
content available for your users. Some Content
Management systems [ways of hosting your information
online] do this automatically. What Video CMS's are
available for you to use? Or what are the solutions
for you if you don't want to change the way you are
hosting your video just yet.

* start time: SUN 10.30
* end time: SUN 11.30

==== Video CMS systems compared ====

A look at the different content management systems
that are being used to distribute Video over the
Internet. Participants will bring experience of using
and setting up Plone, Drupal, Broadcast Machine and a
variety of custom and customised systems. What is
working well now? What are the gaps? Can we
collaborate to make a better solution in the future? 

Some tools used: 
* Broadcast machine;
http://www.getdemocracy.com/broadcast/
* Drupal / Clearerchannel / Loud Blog etc. 
* Plone 

* start time: SUN 15.30
* end time: SAT 17.30

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At a glance schedule of events 
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All of these events are at Limehouse Town Hall unless
otherwise stated. Please get in touch if you feel you
can contribute to these workshops. email coordination
AT lists.retransmission.org

FRIDAY 13th October
9.00

Setup 

11.00
*Documentation working group 

12.00
*Welcoming, housekeeping

13.00
*Presentation/ Discussion Documentations guides and
help files

14.00
*Presentations – Open slot
*Documentation working group

15.00
Break

15.45
*Project Presentations: Existing on line distribution
projects

17.30
*Discussion: Present and future of on-line video
distribution 

19.30
*Break

20.30
*Participant Film Screening- 

SAT 14th October
9.00
*Creating content for on-line TV
*Creating and sharing Subtitles Workshop 

10.30
*Net Neutrality and creative commons
*Encoding for Mac
*Encoding for Pc

12.00
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14.00
*Citizen Video BFI event on NFT South Bank:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/6871
*RAMPart Hack Lab

16:00
*Soft TV BFI event on NFT South Bank:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/6872
*Rampart Hack Lab

20:00
*Film Screening – Collective Vision

SUN 15th October
10.30
*Do no Harm; ethics of radical distribution
*Command Line Video Encoding
*Podcast creation Basic 

11.30
*Presentation: Metadata, and Video distribution;
*On line Video Production / Collaboration model

12.30
*Future of Transmission Network. 

14.00
Break

15.00
*Screenings database CIVICRM
*CMS technical comparison

16.00
*Metadata working group
*CMS technical comparison and areas for improvement.

17.00
*Metadata working group 

18:00

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http://www.ourvideo.org   >> community video toolkit 
http://www.clearerchannel.org   << video show case for
screening

Clearer channel is ready to link to now - Could you
help us promote it by including this in your email
signature or website somewhere?

"Clearer Channel is a place to download video for
public screenings. The focus is on social change
videos to wake us up, shake us up and inspire action.
http://www.clearerchannel.org"

phone: 07913882193 0161 237 1832   
email :mick at undercurrents.org 
post: box29, Merci, Bridge 5 Mill,  22a Beswick St,
Manchester, M4 7HR
id number: pending

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http://www.ourvideo.org   >> community video toolkit 
http://www.clearerchannel.org   << video show case for screening

Clearer channel is ready to link to now - Could you help us promote it by including this in your email signature or website somewhere?

"Clearer Channel is a place to download video for public screenings. The focus is on social change videos to wake us up, shake us up and inspire action. http://www.clearerchannel.org"

phone: 07913882193 0161 237 1832   
email :mick at undercurrents.org 
post: box29, Merci, Bridge 5 Mill,  22a Beswick St, Manchester, M4 7HR
id number: pending
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