Wikipedia:WikiTV/Schnittserver/2015.02

Participants

1. Alexis (IA)
2. Jake (IA)
3. Dan (Developer)
4. Volker Grassmuck (Leuphana)
5. Manuel Schneider
6. Sebastiaan ter Burg - end user
7. Brion Vibber (Wikimedia)

Timeline

Preperation of Beta Phase:

• setting up URLs
• integration of IA storage: https://archive.org/help/derivatives.php
• creating backlink template on Wikimedia Common

Beta Phase:

• limited beta test (~throughout April)
• writing manual (23rd April - meeting Sebastiaan, Volker, Manuel)
• user authentication integration (Wikimedia, IA)
• video tutorials

Announcement:

• presentation at WMF (eg. during a brown bag)
• coordinated blog posts - making it public in May
• [target presentation & hacking at Lyon hackathon - late May 2015 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015 ]
• presentation at Wikimania: beginning of July in Mexico (see Wikimania paragraph below)

Testing

Testing by end users would be preferable to take place until may. This should be a small test to get feeback and to start with documentation. Prerequisites:

• Linux users (can be virtualized)
• Source footage available
• n00bs en geeks

URLs

• video.wikimedia.org - documentation / wiki for collaboration/cooperation -> wiki with multilanguage - Cross language workspace for production information.
• videoserver.wikimedia.org CNAME researcher1907.fnf.archive.org.
  • Brion will see about setting these up, may take a few days
  • Dan here: you will also need to change the callback URL on the OAuth consumer.
• For a proposal for server infrastructure: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sS8WnMO6iFidEPkyNMk2gZQkuyEgRYeupI4uELS4erc/edit#slide=id.p

Editor program integration

• Currently KDEnlive, some plans for another that's more cross-platform.
• Things like Premiere are dreamed of but not on the immediate roadmap. Note that converting is really hard; everyone working on a single project must use the same editor tool.

  [note: mainly need to be able to parse/rewrite project files to replace full-res clips with proxies and vice versa]

Dan: there are two primary interop video editing project file formats: CMX EDL and AAF. However, both, especially EDL, has interop issues; so, you end up having to sometimes create "flavors" of them. It is a lot of work, but also a lot of demand in the Kdenlive community.

Additional support?

• Video should be coming back on the radar for WMF Multimedia team soon; Brion will check in with the team to see if any support can be provided.
• IA can provide lots of disk space -- yay! -- but no manpower just now.
• Sebastiaan volunteers to be educated from a n00b perspective in the 3rd week of April and to write the first draft manual. Deadline: 23rd of may - international hackathon (Lyon)

Google Summer of Code?

• Dan happy to mentor
• (Brion happy to put that in WMF's GSoC if it doesn't fit in another org's)

Wikimania

• apply for scholarship until February 16 - https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
• submit a talk until February 19 - https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions (Manuel)

Proposed title:

• Cooperative Video Editing - Wikimedia and Internet Archive Joining Forces

Submissions:

• https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Podemos!_How_Videos_are_bringing_Wikimedia_to_the_next_Level
• https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Video_Production_Tools_and_Community_in_the_Wikiverse
• https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Video_Community_Coordination_Roundtable

Who is coming to Wikimania?

1. Manuel
2. Volker ?