[Foundation-l] Wikimania2008 Sessions online

Mon Jul 21 22:15:38 UTC 2008

2008/7/21 Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org>:

> Michael has long been working on MetaVid, based very heavily on Ogg
> Theora to ensure openness, and will be both improving our basic
> Ogg-playing capabilities and creating a truly open version of the online
> editing interfaces that Kaltura's current stuff provides.

Note that Wikimedia Commons could be one of the largest Theora-only
video repositories on the net, particularly if/when we get enough
backed-up disk space on the image server for Commons to really get
into it. It'd be nice to say "Oh, your Nokia doesn't support Theora?
Sucks to be you, looking up Wikipedia in the pub. You shoulda got an
OpenMoko."

- d.