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Webjay: Remixing video and news on the fly

Check out the slashdot article about webjay - remixing news and video on the fly.

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/19/0044208.shtml?tid=129&tid=95

Open letter to garner interest in project

Here is an open letter hopefully explaining the gist of the project and what we're looking for. Please forward as you see fit.

http://thequality.com/flics/10weeks/blog/archives/docs/20040628_Open Letter.doc

First NESTA milestone passed

We hit the first project milestone today (Business Set-up) scheduled for the end of the month. Great start!

I'm going to need all the time to spare to get the first cut of the design documentation done by the end of Aug. That's the point at which HOW this gets done gets written down in detail and cut back to a scope that's achievable. I'll be looking to you all for the help you can muster.

As alluded to in the report to NESTA below, it has been a hard month in terms of sourcing people for the next phases. I'm still looking for a python programmer to assist me in tools creation and only two film producers (both very promising) have been interviewed.

Warm welcome to new members of the team Kate Griffiths-Lambeth (HR advisor to the stars), Tim Donlevy (biz dev advisor extrordinaire), and Alex Zinzi (globe-trotting community curator of all that's cool, kitch and new).

Big thanks to everyone who's chipped in this month especially ChristineC on the finance side, ArchieM on the contracts, MikeE (for virtual set work on the short film MISSED I'm directing - good food for thought re. SANCTUARY's Bush Bash sequence), RobB for unwittingly throwing my entire online distribution plan into welcome disarray, PaulM for yet more list server capability and MattP lending a hand with that most glamorous of chores, sysadmin and many more for bits and bobs that make all the difference.

Game on!

My report to NESTA.

xxx

MOD Films mailing lists

Please help us build an interest in the project by directing people to the mailing lists to subscribe.

lists.modfilms.com Mailing Lists

Alex Zinzi (Community Host)

Greetings from outer space..

CONTACTS:
GMAIL: alexzinzi@gmail.com
MSN: sydneyspoleto@hotmail.it
AIM: sydneyspoleto
YAHOO: sydneyspoleto

Hello there.. my name is Alex and I'm your new Host around here! Feel free to contact me anytime with your comments about the site, MOD activities and/or if you have any questions about the goings on within this community and its modus operandi (yes that is indeed latin for 'operating method'.. see I knew you guys were good!)

Game control set samples

Here are the control instructions for the Playstation 2 titles, Eyetoy:Play and Gitaroo Man.

WB blocks fan films from ComicCon this year

After the critical success of Batman: Dead End at last year's ComicCon convention, Warner Bros have had a word with the organisers to ensure that there is no competition this year with the official product on offer.

http://www.comics2film.com/StoryFrame.php?f_id=8019&f_sec=16

Interactive design document

Gamasutra - Features "Creating a Great Design Document" [09.12.97]

Source Films

Other groups are looking at the upcoming Half-Life 2 engine as a movie platform as well.

Gaming Forums - Source Films: A Half Life 2 "mod" Looking for 3D artists

Union Entertainment

Thanks to Stephen for spotting the Wired Magazine piece on Union Entertainment, Hollywood's supposed first company for developing film/game titles as one. On their slate is an action/rhythm title called Johnny Whatever ("1984 meets Parappa the Rapper"). Gitaroo Man anyone? {:-)

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/play_pr.html

An interview with one of the company founders:
http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=22862

Free Oz CA

An article about a major free Australian Certificate Authority:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/5142

Meeting with Robert Bowerman

My notes from the 20040603 meeting.

Robert recommends we check out:

TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform for any documentation and engineering projects. There seem to be a lot of positive case studies out there.

Write Wikipedia articles on re-mixable films, mod films, mod and add links from existing entries.

Use the Mailman listserver in the lead up to the community build.

Don't neglect off-site backups. To discuss with MattP for exchange of media.

Research enterprise message bus architecture for scalable number of peer connections. You register available message types by publishing these to the bus. Other systems subscribe to the bus. It sounds like this could one way to organise references to MODs and film assets not hosted by modfilms.

E.g. openadaptor™ is a Java/XML-based software platform which allows for rapid business system integration with little or no custom programming.

Robert is going to contact a MOD community of 17 year-olds he knows of to sound them out about freelance sysadmin work and involvement in community projects.

Sites to help drive traffic to modfilms re. programmer role -
http://metafilter.org/http://www.rense.com
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.saintsservers.com/
http://www.192.com

Press mention - The Guardian

Err, not exactly... my response:
http://thequality.com/people/michela/weblog/archives/001631.html#001631