14pm - 14:45pm - Introduction to the Open Video Movement

Elizabeth Stark(Yale ISP/iCommons)/Dean Jansen (Participatory Culture Foundation)

To leaders in the open video movement will provide an explanation of the concept of open video and make the case as to why it\\\'s important. They will explain the concept behind the movement, and provide a perspective on into what has been happening in this field and how it has gained momentum in recent months, including at the inaugural Open Video Conference in NYC the week before.

14:45-15:15 - Showcasing Open Video in Brazil MinC\\\'s Digital Culture Initiative - Jose Murilo (Brazil Ministry of Culture)

Jose Murilo will showcase the Brazilian Ministry of Culture\\\'s video project, dedicated to promoting open video archiving in Brazil.

15:15-15:30 Break -- get to know other participants!

15:30 - 16:00pm - Mozilla and Open Video Mark Surman

Representatives of Mozilla will explain the new open video features of Firefox 3.5, including native OGG Theora support and talk how open video connects with the Mozilla Foundation Mission.

16:00-17:00pm

Building an Open Video Community in Brazil Fabricio Zuardi / VJ Pixel / Bruno Magrani

Open discussion on building greater momentum within the open video community in Brazil. Conducted in Portuguese and English.

Elizabeth Stark is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale College. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group. She serves on the board of directors of the international organization Students for Free Culture, dedicated to promoting access to knowledge, technological freedom, and participatory culture. While at Harvard, she was Editor-at-Large of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and worked with the Advocates for Human Rights as a founding member of the Anti-Torture Group. Elizabeth conducted research for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and has taught courses in Cyberlaw, Technology and Politics, and Electronic Music. She has collaborated with organizations such as Creative Commons, SPARC, the Free Software Foundation, and One Laptop per Child. Elizabeth has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.

Dean Jansen is part of the Special Projects team at the Participatory Culture Foundation. The PCF is the non-profit organization which has developed and promoted Miro, the open source internet TV platform.

Owner of the open musicplayer http://musicplayer.sf.net, the website CCHits (http://cchits.org) for share-friendly music tracks, and Developer Evangelist at Ning.com (founded by Marc Andreeseen). Ning is a platform and framework to build social networks and web applications in a shared and open source environment, used by hundreds of thousands of network creators and millions of users. Contributor of the Developer Network (http://developer.ning.com) blogs at http://idomyownstunts.blogspot.com

Gerente de Informações Estratégicas e Cultura Digital do Ministério da Cultura

Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote openness and opportunity on the Internet. On the side, Mark convenes conversations about ‘open everything‘ in his home town of Toronto and around the world.

pixel é VJ, criador do e-Noise e da rede VJBR, atualmente pesquisa multimídia para o Estúdio Livre, integra o coletivo Media Sana e a rede MetaReciclagem, colabora na elaboração de versões do NGO-in-a-Box e com o desenvolvimento do LiVES e trabalha na Coordenação Nacional do Projeto Casa Brasil do governo federal.