[NetBehaviour] Transmission - Online Video Distribution for Social Change.

[marc garrett]

Transmission - Online Video Distribution for Social Change.

The shortest, yet best description of Transmission initiative is the one 
of its own founders:

Transmission is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, 
researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online 
video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy. Our 
objective is to make independent online video distribution possible 
(using FLOSS) by building the necessary tools, standards, documentation 
and social networks.

The core idea is to create and use a video management system, similar to 
the idea of CMS (Content Management System) for a website, in order to 
to offer a communication infrastructure for conducting research, 
identifying needs, and developing solutions concerning the online 
activism for social change that makes use of video footage to illustrate 
various problems of the world nowadays, issues poorly represented, 
misrepresented and not represented at all in the mainstream media.

Transmission is professionally built, but still developing. You can find 
on its website information about the network, about how to get involved, 
who’s already involved, about past gatherings of Transmission members 
and you can also get access to the Transmission wiki that sums the work 
done so far, while offering the platform for further improvement and 
extension. Any interested person can join Transmission as an individual 
and, as an individual, you can submit your registration to more than one 
Transmission group. But working for its projects happens only as a 
group. That goes the same when applying for funding to sustain a certain 
project.

more...
http://tinyurl.com/35e4ho