Calendar of Events

May

1– ROFLCon II / Cambridge, MA
4– Day Against DRM / Free Software Foundation
8– ISOC-NY: dot nyc – How are we doing? / New York, NY
11– Free Press Summit / Washington, DC
Berkman Center Luncheon Series / Cambridge, MA
25– Copynight NYC / New York, NY
30– Re/Mixed Media Festival 2010 / Brooklyn, NY

June

2– Media That Matters Tenth Annual Premiere / New York, NY
10– MediaMosa Semiar: Weblectures and Open Video / Utrecht, Netherlands
22-24– Center for Intellectual Property Symposium / Washington, DC
28– COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & Cyberspace / Torino, Italy

July

2– EuroScience Open Forum 2010 / Torino, Italy
9– Wikimania Conference 2010 / Gdańsk, Poland
21– HTML5′s Multimedia Future (@OSCON 2010) / Portland, OR

Open Video Alliance
Upcoming events

Open Video Conference 2010
October 1-2
New York City

Open Video Alliance
Past events

Open Video Seminar, Brazil
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/sxsw
March 22, 2010
The Open Video Seminar in Rio de Janeiro is a one-day event to explore policy around open standards, remixing, video distribution, intellectual property, free software, and net neutrality. The purpose of the meeting is to identify the issues that will have far reaching consequences for internet video in Brazil.

OVA @ SXSW 2010
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/sxsw
March 2010
On Friday, March 12, one the biggest and most hyped media festivals of the year kicks off in Austin, Texas: South by Southwest 2010. The Open Video Alliance will be there in numbers to get things started over the weekend with three separate panels to check out. Join us and some well known open video guests with a bunch of fresh ideas and new tools to unveil at SXSW Interactive.

Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/lessig_live/
February 25, 2010
Lawrence Lessig, the foundational voice of the free culture movement, will deliver a talk on fair use, politics, and online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tune in, visit a screening event, or host your own. Streaming in 100% free and open Theora.

Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance
http://openvideoalliance.org/summit/
January 25, 2010
The mission of the Slamdance, WorkBook Project and Open Video Alliance Filmmaker Summit is to jointly craft a new charter for filmmaking, storytelling and content distribution, with and by the global filmmaking community.Our collaboration is born out of reaction to an independent film industry currently in a state of change and how, as a global filmmaking community, we can better understand and find greater success afforded by new technology and the democratization of new tools and processes.

Open Video in 60 Seconds
http://contest.openvideoalliance.org
February 2010
A 60 second video contest to explain open video. Check out the winners!

Open Video Summit, India
http://openvideoalliance.org/event/india
December 15, 2009
This workshop in Bangalore—modelled after a similar meeting in October 2008 at Yale University—draws together experts from tech, art, film, NGOs and business to explore the future of online video.

Open Video Conference
http://openvideoconference.org
June 19-20, 2009
The Open Video Conference (OVC) is a multi-day summit of thought leaders in business, academia, art, and activism to explore the future of online video. The inaugural OVC took place June 19-20, 2009 at NYU Law School in New York, with an informal hack day on June 21.