OMwiki:About

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OpenMeetings.org is a video transcription platform designed to increase availability, discoverability, and liberty to comment on archived meetings spanning a broad range of social issues.


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Full Description

"OpenMeetings.org is a audio/video transcription and annotation platform built from entirely free and open source software.  Launched in June 2009 and inspired by MetaVid (metavid.org), the open video archive of the U.S. Congress, OpenMeetings.org hosts and welcomes submission of conference recordings and formal proceedings.  Project goals are to increase availability, discoverability, and liberty to comment on archived meetings as to improve the degree of informed civil discourse across a broad range of social issues."


Operation details

OpenMeetings.org is run as a sole proprietorship by George Chriss.  The project welcomes submission of recorded, open-to-the-public meetings for the purpose of crowd-sourced transcription and annotation.

The project was launched on 7-June-2009 and hosts a MetaVidWiki instance known as "OMwiki".  (MetaVidWiki is an extension of Semantic MediaWiki.)  All content and software tools are free/libre as detailed on Copyrights.  

OpenMeetings.org should not be confused with openmeetings open-source web-conferencing software.


Online Social Networks

OpenMeetings.org has the following social networking sites:

Twitter
Follow at @openmeetings
Identi.ca
Follow at @openmeetings
Join the group at http://identi.ca/group/openmeetings
Facebook
Join the group here, administered by Rob Chriss


To-do

  • Update and separate-off budget projections to a new page.
  • Detail upcoming changes to project ownership
  • Copy information into Strategy Markup Language (StratML) format and draft an explicit strategic plan, mission, developer network, etc.

All videos and text are published under the CC-BY 3.0 U. S. or CC-BY-SA 3.0. copyright licenses.  Details.