BlogConnecting F/OSS and PEG Access TV
In the Spring Issue of Community Media Review, Felicia Sullivan writes
“These concepts of freedom, transparency, accessibility, creativity, inclusion and community should sound familiar to those of us working in community media. They are the foundations of much of the work in which we are engaged. Therefore, we owe it to ourselves and to our communities to explore and be open to free and open source software.”
I think there is an exciting opportunity to further explore these common values shared by both the free and open source software and community media movements. I’ve created a new page, titled “Free and Open Source Software” on the Community Media in Transition wiki to examine how the mission of PEG access TV fits within this context. If you are interested in sharing your resources and knowledge for this project, please visit the wiki to get started.
At the end of the article, Felicia writes
“It is not a fluke that so many of the resources detailed in this article have ‘.org’ in their URLs. F/OSS is a stance about what kind of communication culture we want to create. isn’t this what the mission of community media is all about?”
Download the article for free (as in speech) over at CMR.
Posted in Community Media, Content Management Systems, Free and Open Source Software, Internet, PEGTV, Public Access TV, Video Distribution |
June 19th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
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