N2Y2 Con: Miro: Open Source, Open Standards Video Intro Presentation

Miro: Open Source, Open Standards Video is a Featured Project at the 2nd  NetSquared Conference. 

Project Summary

We are seizing an opportunity to build a new, open mass medium of online television – through the use of Internet video. Through our nonprofit software development we’re making watching internet video channels as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel just as easy.

Our project is relevant because:· Television is the defining medium of our culture. There's now an opportunity to create a television culture that is fluid, diverse, exciting, and beautiful.

· Our platform is open-source and built on open-standards. This matters because it keeps video flowing freely. When you lock people in to closed, proprietary services, you lose everything that makes the Internet work.

· Television is moving online. Will it be the same narrow, top-down cultural stagnation that we see on traditional television? All the major media and computer companies are clamoring to control video online. If they succeed it will be a disaster.

· We don't have to spend years playing catch-up. Open-source and open- standards can lead this fight for the future of video online. We’re not in this to get rich. We’re in this because of our deep commitment to fully open and not-for-profit video distribution on the Web.