Submissions/WikiTV: the Open Media Project
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010. |
- Title of the submission
- WikiTV: The Open Media Project
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
- Panel
- Author of the submission
- Tony Shawcross
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
- tony@openmediafoundation.org
- Country of origin
- USA
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
- The Open Media Foundation
- Personal homepage or blog
- http://openmediafoundation.org
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
- Inspired by the successful distributed participatory model of wikipedia, The Open Media Foundation set out in 2005 to launch a TV station in Denver with a similar model. OMF built open-source tools designed to give the people of Denver total control over the production, scheduling, and management of three Cable TV channels. With funding for Public Access TV shrinking across the Nation, in 2008, the Knight Foundation funded a beta-test to expand this Open Media Project to 6 additional stations across the country. With the recent addition of San Francisco, a number of cities are working to prove that the wiki model can be used to create a public TV network that can make PBS as defunct as Wikpedia made Brittanica.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
- Knowledge and Collaboration
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- undecided
- Slides or further information (optional)
- Panelists include representatives from OMP partner stations in San Francisco, Denver, Austin, Boston, and Davis, CA.
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