Open Video Conference Ends in NYC

Liz Winstead
Image by biverson via Flickr

What a great meeting. I’ll be posting some audio and my reflections on the sessions. The big surprise, was a live Skype session with Peter Sunde, the spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, who was charming and lionized by the OVC crowd.

via Open Video Conference Pushes for Free, Ubiquitous Video | Underwire | Wired.com.

Organized by the Participatory Culture Foundation, Kaltura, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and iCommons, the video conference is swimming with profs, artists, techies and other inquiring minds.

Speakers included: DVD Jon, Xeni Jardin, Amy Goodman, The Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, RiP: A Remix Manifesto director Brett Gaylor and representatives from The Mozilla Foundation, and media centers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Southern California.