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Open Media Project: Giving Community Control of Television

Event Interactive 2011
Format Dual
Organizer Kevin Reynen – Open Media Project
Description The Open Media Project (OMP) is a collaborative effort by several public access stations, community media centers, and public media organizations to develop open source, online tools making it easier for members of local communities to have their voice heard online and on TV. channelAustin, a nonprofit operating a state-of-the-art HD digital community media center in East Austin, is one of several groups contributing to the OMP. The OMP empowers and enable communities; allowing people to enroll in classes, reserve production equipment, editing facilities, and studio space, as well as submit video that both airs on local cable channels and is available online. These tools reduce the staff time previously required to provide these services. This dual panel presentation will briefly review the history of the project and channelAustin, and demonstrate tools including the submitting of a new show that airs on TV before the end of the session. Remember that scene from Hackers where Zero Cool and Acid Burn battle who controls what’s airing on TV? Video submitted is licensed with Creative Commons and uses standardized metadata making it easier to exchange video between Open Media using organizations. The presentation will review impact the OMP has had on channelAustin, look at innovative ways other stations and centers are using the tools, as well as how these tools are helping to reshape organizations providing the public access to media.
Questions
Answered
  1. How has community television in the United States changed in the last 10 years and what are the implications for channelAustin?
  2. What is the Open Media Project and how does it resolve some of the issues and problems faced by community television generally and channelAustin specifically in Web2.0 world where more people are watching YouTube than cable television?
  3. How do the Open Media Project’s Drupal-based online tools work and make the video production work-flow easier for users and staff at community television stations and channelAustin?
  4. How has channelAustin, Austin’s digital community media center, played a role in the development of the Open Media Project?
  5. What can the future of public media look like for public access, PBS and NPR?
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Online Community
Tags Creative Commons, Drupal, public media
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