Miro

www.skiddplayer.com, powered by Miro Community

We’re delighted to announce a new version of Miro Community (0.9), which brings a host of new features and themes to the table. The software is incredibly powerful for bringing together video from all over the web into a cohesive website that can have a look and feel that suits a community or organization.

Miro Community is currently powering over 250 video sites and continues to grow—the software is free and open source and we offer hosted versions here.

A few highlights:

Enhanced Performance - Miro Community now checks for new videos from your sources more often, and we’ve made a variety of changes to make the sites run more smoothly.

New blog-like theme (”blue theme”) offers editors the ability to do blog-like commentary for video items and highlights user activity such as recent comments.

Categories hover menu in navigation bar – You no longer need to be in Category theme to have the categories accessible on the front page.

Increased Chrome Support - Site thumbnails now look crisp and clean in Chrome as well as other browsers.

Custom Themes for Premium Users – Premium users can now upload their own Django templates to the site, allowing them more flexibility in site design.

reCAPTCHA and default comment moderation – reCAPTCHA is now included on all video pages, making it much more difficult for spammers to leave comments.

Reorganized Administrative Area: We’ve pared down the administrative area to make it easier to navigate.

These are just a few of the many improvements.

To try out Miro Community, go to http://www.mirocommunity.org/signup/ and create a site today.

New community Womoz (Women & Mozilla) solicits videos about women and FLOSS for their Miro Community powered video site. Check it out and submit some videos!

From the Womoz blog:

The Women & Mozilla Video Website is live and you can help it grow!

We’ve recently added a video website to our WoMoz project tools. This Website has been created mainly in order to:

• give everyone access to online video tutorials about Free Software and Mozilla
• publish interviews of women contributors and portray their outstanding work inside FLOSS communities
• display video content about the women in computer science / FLOSS subject
• publish existing conferences done by women in FLOSS and IT

You can all help by uploading video content onto this new site!

If you feel like a video makes sense in regard to the list above, please feel free to submit it directly from the site’s main Home page. (no account necessary to upload videos, just click the “Submit A Video” button and a site administrator will approve them).

Participatory Culture Foundation is looking for a designer. A top-notch portfolio is essential, we need somebody who knows HTML/CSS, and some javascript knowledge is a plus.

This is for a new PCF project that will let communities of users subtitle any video on the web. You’ll be responsible for web design and branding, and probably a lot of fun user interface design as well. Send samples to nicholas (a) pculture.org.

Below is a heads up on two conferences PCF recommends checking out!

Making Your Media Matter is put on by American University’s Center for Social Media, and the Media that Matters Film Festival, put on by Arts Engine, is calling for video submissions. See their announcements below.
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Making Your Media Matter

Washington, D.C., Feb 11-12, 2010

Join established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students working to learn and share cutting-edge practices to make their media matter, February 11th and 12th 2010 at American University in Washington DC. This year marks the Center for Social Media’s sixth annual Making Your Media Matter conference. Visit the Center’s website to view partners and sponsors www.centerforsocialmedia.org/mymm and sign on to the social networking site www.makingyourmediamatter.ning.com. Registration $100, Students, $50. Register now!

MYMM is presented in partnership with the Media That Matters Festival, which is a project of Arts Engine, Inc.

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Media That Matters 10

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Deadline: January 22, 2010

Media That Matters: Screen. Act. Impact.

Arts Engine celebrates ten years of Media That Matters — the premier
showcase for short films with big messages.

“We no longer have to rely on major corporations for things to be seen — we have Media that Matters to distribute new material and new voices and new points of view.”
— Tim Robbins, Actor

Submit your film for the chance to work with us in creating social
change through film. If selected, your film will take become a part of
Media That Matters — an international, multi-platform campaign
streaming and playing to thousands of people at screenings across the
globe. Media That Matters creates discussion guides and screening
materials to promote conversation and encourage educators, activists
and organizers alike to Take Action around these films. Join us in our
TENTH year and submit your film now!
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/submit

CRITERIA:

* Short films — the shorter the better—no longer than 12 minutes
max, but 8 and under would be great!
* Social issues — Any and all issues will be considered. This year
we are focusing on Media Literacy, Human Rights, LGBTQ & Sexual
Identity, Youth Activism and International issues in particular.
* The film should encourage the audience to be engaged and take
action around the issue.
* All genres — Documentary, animation, public service announcement,
narrative, music video, drama, comedy. Creativity is encouraged — but
your film must focus on a social issue.
* Open to all ages — Youth-produced projects encouraged!