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  isoc-ny 2:12 am on September 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Audio files from the Open Hardware Summit #openhwsummit #openhardware 

  Audio files from the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science – Sep 23 2010. (Video is coming)

  INTRODUCTION

  Welcome [mp3] [ogg] [video]

  • Peter Semmelhack, Bug Labs
  • Ayah Bdeir, Creative Commons & littleBits
  • Alicia Gibb, Bug Labs & NYCResistor

  WHY DO OPEN HARDWARE?

  • Limor Fried, Adafruit [mp3] [ogg] [slides] [video]
  • Gerald Coley, Texas Instruments & Beagle Board [mp3] [ogg] [slides] [video]
  • Bruce Perens, founder: OSI [mp3] [ogg] [slides]
  • John Wilbanks, Creative Commons [mp3] [ogg] [slides]

  INSTITUTION Sprint talks

  •     Amanda McDonald Crowley, EYEBEAM: ‘Open Art and Tech’ [mp3] [ogg] [slides]
  •     Jim Barkley & Sam Sayer, MITRE: ‘ARx: Almost-Ready-to-Anything’ [mp3] [ogg] [slides]
  •     Andy Lee, NASA: ‘NASA’s Open Lab’ [mp3] [ogg]

  OPEN HARDWARE IN REALITY

  BUSINESS: Open hardware business models [mp3] [ogg] [slides]

  •     Moderator: Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management
  •     Chris Anderson, DIYdrones & Wired
  •     Peter Semmelhack, Bug Labs
  •     David Carrier, Parallax
  •     Phil Torrone, Adafruit & Make
  •     Massimo Banzi, Arduino
  •     Bunnie Huang, Chumby

  PRODUCTIZING: Scaling/ Manufacturing/ Moving beyond DIY [mp3] [ogg]

  •     Moderator: Dale Dougherty, Make
  •     Eric Pan, Seeed Studio
  •     Matt Peddicord, Buglabs
  •     Clint Cooley, Circuit Co
  •     Nathan Seidle, Sparkfun
  •     Paulo Blikstein, Stanford University & GoGoBoard
  •     Taylor Hokanson, DIYLILCNC

  VENUE

  • Eric Siegel – New York Hall of Science [mp3] [ogg]

  LAW: Open hardware licenses and norms [mp3] [ogg]

  •    Moderator: David Mellis, Arduino & MIT Media Lab
  •     Windell Oskay, Evil Mad Scientist
  •     Wendy Seltzer, Harvard University: Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  •     Matt Stack, Liquidware
  •     Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge
  •     Peter Brown, Free Software Foundation
  •     Xavier Carcelle, OHANDA

  DESIGN sprint talks

  •     Dave Vondle, IDEO: ‘Re-examining Design for Open-Source Hardware’ [mp3] [ogg] [slides]
  •     Georgina Voss, Tinker: ‘To Build a (Smart) Home’ [mp3] [ogg]
  •     Mike Kuniavsky, ThingM: ‘Three crappy Open Hardware situations we’ve had to deal with, and what we did.’ [mp3] [ogg]

  EDUCATION sprint talks

  •     Leah Buechley, MIT Media Lab: ‘OSH in the Academy’ [mp3] [ogg]
  •     Dan Steingart, City College CUNY: ‘Ardustat:A Case Study in Open Source Hardware for Academics’ [mp3] [ogg] [slides]
  •     Michael Shiloh, Teach Me to Make: ‘Highly Learnable Open Hardware’ [mp3] [ogg] [slides]

  DEFINITION AND DISCUSSION

  *     Ayah Bdeir, Creative Commons & littleBits: Introduction of definition 1.0 and signing [mp3] [ogg]

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    Chris Gammell 3:31 pm on September 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Thank you so much for posting these! My recorder died half way through the summit so I really appreciate being able to get them after the fact.

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    Charlie Brown 12:24 pm on October 1, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Thanks a lot Joly!

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    joly 5:24 pm on September 16, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    Please note that the archived webcast from the 2011 summit is here

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  isoc-ny 1:30 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: free, open   

  Open World Forum – Paris: 9/30-10/1 #open #freeculture 

  
  The third Open World Forum – being staged in Paris on 30 September and 1 October 2010 .

  Year on year, the Free / Open Source model is affirming itself as the invisible driver behind the digital revolution, whether at the level of emerging technologies (Cloud computing, the Internet of Things…), business models and societal trends. The aim of the Open World Forum is to gather together all the key decisionmakers and interested parties – political leaders, CxOs and decision-makers, Community leaders and stakeholders, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and academic – to evaluate possible trends and cross-fertilize growth initiatives around the open digital world.

  This year’s theme, ‘OPEN IS THE FUTURE‘, will be explored through 15 Keynote addresses, 20 conferences and workshops, 8 Think Tanks, 1 Demo Cup, 1 Open IT ShowRoom and a TV Channel, organized into 3 main strands and 9 themes, plus associated events:

  • Press release | News Desk
  • Program | Agenda
  • Twitter: @OpenWorldForum | #OpenWorldForum

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  isoc-ny 7:54 pm on August 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: event ( 22 ), nyc ( 119 ), open, open hardware ( 5 )   

  Open Hardware Summit – NYC 9/23/2010 #OSHW 

  The Open Hardware Summit will be a venue to present, promote and discuss the undergoing open source hardware movement. The summit will focus on hardware as a system, involving conversations on software, manufacturing, legal, and other factors surrounding open source hardware. It is taking place on September 23rd, at the New York Hall of Science – right before Maker Faire.

  The Open Hardware movement is engaged in nailing down the definition, currently OSHW v.0.3, of the term open source hardware and producing a real, and enforceable license, much like the Creative Commons License does for artistic creations and the GPL does for software.

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  isoc-ny 7:07 pm on August 6, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: drumbeat ( 2 ), open   

  Drumbeat NYC – Saturday 8/7 Noon-5pm #openweb 

  August 7, 2010 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm
  OpenPlans
  148 Lafayette Street
  Penthouse (13th floor)
  New York, NY, 10013
  https://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-new-york

  More info below:

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  isoc-ny 2:36 pm on May 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open, video ( 21 ), WebM ( 2 )   

  Google / Mozilla launch WebM project to bring open video to web 

  WebM is an open, royalty-free, media file format designed for the web.

  WebM defines the file container structure, video and audio formats. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska container.

  Benefits of WebM

  *Openness and innovation. A key factor in the web’s success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, and TCP/IP are open for anyone to implement and improve. With video being core to the web experience, a high-quality, open video format choice is needed. WebM is 100% free, and open-sourced under a BSD-style license.
  *Optimized for the web. Serving video on the web is different from traditional broadcast and offline mediums. Existing video formats were designed to serve the needs of these mediums and do it very well. WebM is focused on addressing the unique needs of serving video on the web.
  o Low computational footprint to enable playback on any device, including low-power netbooks, handhelds, tablets, etc.
  o Simple container format
  o Highest quality real-time video delivery
  o Click and encode. Minimal codec profiles, sub-options; when possible, let the encoder make the tough choices.

  For more information about WebM, see http://www.webmproject.org/

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    Joly MacFie 3:21 pm on May 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Some detailed analysis is on http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=377

    Google’s choice of container and audio format for HTML5

    Google has chosen Matroska for their container format. This isn’t particularly surprising: Matroska is one of the most widely used “modern” container formats and is in many ways best-suited to the task. MP4 (aka ISOmedia) is probably a better-designed format, but is not very flexible; while in theory it can stick anything in a private stream, a standardization process is technically necessary to “officially” support any new video or audio formats. Patents are probably a non-issue; the MP4 patent pool was recently disbanded, largely because nobody used any of the features that were patented.

    Another advantage of Matroska is that it can be used for streaming video: while it isn’t typically, the spec allows it. Note that I do not mean progressive download (a’la Youtube), but rather actual streaming, where the encoder is working in real-time. The only way to do this with MP4 is by sending “segments” of video, a very hacky approach in which one is effectively sending a bunch of small MP4 files in sequence. This approach is used by Microsoft’s Silverlight “Smooth Streaming”. Not only is this an ugly hack, but it’s unsuitable for low-latency video. This kind of hack is unnecessary for Matroska. One possible problem is that since almost nobody currently uses Matroska for live streaming purposes, very few existing Matroska implementations support what is necessary to play streamed Matroska files.

    I’m not quite sure why Google chose to rebrand Matroska; “WebM” is a stupid name.

    The choice of Vorbis for audio is practically a no-brainer. Even ignoring the issue of patents, libvorbis is still the best general-purpose open source audio encoder. While AAC is generally better at very low bitrates, there aren’t any good open source AAC encoders: faac is worse than LAME and ffmpeg’s AAC encoder is even worse. Furthermore, faac is not free software; it contains code from the non-free reference encoder. Combined with the patent issue, nobody expected Google to pick anything else.

    Summary for the lazy

    VP8, as a spec, should be a bit better than H.264 Baseline Profile and VC-1. It’s not even close to competitive with H.264 Main or High Profile. If Google is willing to revise the spec, this can probably be improved.

    VP8, as an encoder, is somewhere between Xvid and Microsoft’s VC-1 in terms of visual quality. This can definitely be improved a lot, but not via conventional means.

    VP8, as a decoder, decodes even slower than ffmpeg’s H.264. This probably can’t be improved that much.

    With regard to patents, VP8 copies way too much from H.264 for anyone sane to be comfortable with it, no matter whose word is behind the claim of being patent-free.

    VP8 is definitely better compression-wise than Theora and Dirac, so if its claim to being patent-free does stand up, it’s an upgrade with regard to patent-free video formats.

    VP8 is not ready for prime-time; the spec is a pile of copy-pasted C code and the encoder’s interface is lacking in features and buggy. They aren’t even ready to finalize the bitstream format, let alone switch the world over to VP8.

    With the lack of a real spec, the VP8 software basically is the spec–and with the spec being “final”, any bugs are now set in stone. Such bugs have already been found and Google has rejected fixes

    Google made the right decision to pick Matroska and Vorbis for its HTML5 video proposal.

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    joly 12:44 pm on May 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Google Has A Problem: VP8 Is Not As Good As H.264

    “Based on test results from two different codec experts, Jan Ozer (test results link to come shortly) and Jason Garrett-Glaser (test results), they both came to the conclusions that the VP8 codec provides similar quality to H.264, but in most cases, H.264 is still better quality wise than VP8. Both also stated that most won’t notice the difference between VP8 and H.264, but that’s not what VP8 was suppose to be about. VP8 was touted as the video codec that was suppose to replace H.264 because it could offer better quality at half the bandwidth, something both reviewers said is not possible.”

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  isoc-ny 2:23 pm on April 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open, open standards ( 4 ), Steve Jobs, theora   

  Steve Jobs – #Theora not free, threatened by patent pool 

  Steve Jobs, responding to a free software advocate suggesting Apple consider implementing “free” video codec Theora:

  All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.

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    joly 3:02 pm on May 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    Some commentary, including details of Microsoft’s support for HTML5 and h264, <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=2095>here

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  isoc-ny 10:34 pm on April 20, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: copyright ( 79 ), database ( 2 ), event ( 22 ), law ( 45 ), open   

  Open Source Database Licensing Panel – NYC 4/21 

  The Institute for Information Law & Policy and the International
  Intellectual Property Society present: Open Source Database Licensing

  Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
  Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  Location: NY Law School 185 West Broadway NYC Room W201
  RSVP: Naomi Allen at naomi.allen*at*nyls.edu. Refreshments will be served.

  Database owners are increasingly seeking ways to make their data
  available so that others can contribute to and build on their work. This
  “open data” movement emphasizes the importance of sharing data for both
  scientific development and humanitarian response. The willingness of
  database owners to make their data available for re-use depends on their
  ability to impose conditions on that release, which requires
  consideration of the varying levels of copyright protection afforded to
  databases across jurisdictions.

  Please join us for a panel presentation focusing on the challenges
  associated with balancing the advantages of “open data” with the need
  for database owners to impose conditions on release. The speakers will
  address the current state of copyright protection afforded to databases
  and strategies for encouraging database sharing.

  Panelists:
  Janelle C. Bonanno, Graduate Research Fellow, New York Law School
  Christopher Cotter 3L, New York Law School
  Rachel DeLetto, Graduate Research Fellow, New York Law School
  Cynthia Grady 2L, New York Law School
  Chris Holmes, The Open Planning Project; Chair, Project Steering Committee, GeoServer
  Molly Beutz Land, Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
  James Vasile, Software Freedom Law Center; Board Member, Open Source Matters

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  isoc-ny 8:25 pm on April 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: google ( 22 ), open, video ( 21 ), vp8   

  Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video 

  NewTeeVee reports Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said

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  isoc-ny 1:45 pm on April 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: open, social networking ( 7 ), XMPP   

  OneSocialWeb – Creating a free, open, and decentralized social networking platform. 

  At our ISOC-NY “Freedom in The Cloud” event in February Eben Moglen challenged the tech community to come up with a free, open, and decentralized social networking platform. The folks at OneSocialWeb are working on breeding just such an animal..

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  isoc-ny 5:22 am on December 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: event ( 22 ), government ( 3 ), ny, open   

  Next Friday and Saturday – The Open NY Summit 

  The Open NY Summit will be the first of many events produced by open government practitioners and volunteers. The goal of this first event is to bring new ideas and voices into the conversation, and to inspire new initiatives and innovations.

  http://opennyforum.org/

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