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RE:Transmission - 
Workshops, Presentations and Screenings

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13-15th, Oct 2006
Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK

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I heard about it and I thought, Great. 

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Our aim is to be publishing critical 
content about social issues 

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and environmental issues etc.

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How would you like to give your content 
to other people so they can show it?

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A network of online video distribution 
projects for social change

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It is quite boring for people to say "Ok, 
we would like to talk about this topic".

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But on the other hand, if you say
 that there will be a screening 

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it's a whole different thing and a lot 
more people come.

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And after the video you can 
make discussion as well. 

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A network of citizen journalists, video 
makers, artists, researchers, 

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programmers and web producers who are 
developing online video distribution tools

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for social justice and media
democracy.

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People like google and youtube should
carry on with the model of centralising

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all the files and serving them to people.
I think they only do this because

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they want to retain some control over
the files and because they have

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such huge amounts of capital and 
bandwidth. It may make some sense for them

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but it clearly doesn't make any sense 
for us. 

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Bittorrent clearly is changing the way 
that media works. 

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For us it still has a lot of potential.

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Our objective is to make independent
online video distribution possible

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using Free Libre Open Source Software

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And now we are much closer even than
we were even a few years ago 

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in terms of the software but also in 
terms of what people are doing with video

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that makes possible the imagined dream 
that's been there for a long time that 

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that people could actually broadcast,
share video, do subtitling, collaborate 

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All those kind of things seem more 
possible so I'd like to do something

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better than youtube,
 better than google video.

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Well, I'd like to see us, together, 
be able to do something like that. 

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To build the ; Tools , Standards, 
Documentation, Social Network

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If we are sharing the same standard of 
 Metadata, it means that this tool could

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across a network of different video
collectives and we can really start

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to achieve something that we haven't 
done before which is

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to make our video very visible. 

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I would like to iniciate the discussion
how to properly incorporate subtitles

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into the Democracy Player Platform

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A screening database where people
who want to screen films

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and people who have an opportunity 
to screen films can get together  

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 A space for online video. Primarily
for media that may not even 

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be complete films but media generated
on cell phones. 

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We were inspired if that's the right
 word by the Rodney King incident.

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I thought it's worth making an effort
to find networks to disseminate

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findings of research to disseminate 
points of view that are 

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systematically not heard in the 
mainstream media, in a context

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of neo-liberal globalisation  and 
extreme capitalism.

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shot and edited by Media Culture Action

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