[TelFOSS] Meeting on Thursday, 12 August 2010 - "Kaltura, the open video platform"

[Shlomi Fish]

The [http://tel.foss.org.il/ Tel Aviv Open Source Club] will host 
[http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_12_August_2010 a 
presentation about Kaltura, the Open Source Video Platform] by Zohar Babin on 
Thursday, 12-August-2010, at 19:00 at [http://www.shenkar.ac.il/ Shenkar 
College in Ramat Gan (12 Ann Frank St.)] room 300 ('''note''' the change of 
time and place from the previous meetings - we are now meeting at Shenkar 
college, on a Thursday and on 19:00). There's 
[http://www.shenkar.ac.il/template/default.aspx?maincat=5&catid=32 a map with 
directions on the Shenkar college's site]. Further details, maps for arrival, 
etc. can be found 
[http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_22_July_2010 on the 
Wiki].

Attendance is free, it is not necessary to RSVP and everyone are welcome.

With any other problems, feel free to [http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-
me/ contact the organiser].

== Abstract ==

[http://corp.kaltura.com Kaltura] (also see 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaltura its Wikipedia entry]) allows publishers 
of all sizes to easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site 
with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video 
management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, 
sharing, and advertising.

Unlike the alternative proprietary solutions, Kaltura’s platform is completely 
flexible, extensible and free! Web publishers, value-added-resellers, and 
integrators use our software development kit to customise a unique rich media 
experience that fits their specific purposes, and seamlessly integrates with 
many popular content management systems. Moreover, Kaltura’s reference 
implementations and growing library of applications, extensions and plug-ins 
allow publishers to select off the shelf solutions for rapid self-serve 
deployments that can be fully enabled within minutes. 

Visit [http://www.kaltura.org Kaltura.org] for the community site, forums and 
all the open source projects that are part of the Kaltura Platform.

=== In the lecture ===

* We will cover all major aspects of online video and why a platform to handle 
the various tasks is required.
* We will learn about ways to install the 
[http://www.kaltura.org/project/community_edition_video_platform Kaltura CE 
v2.x], and use it to deploy your own video website/RIA.
* There will be an open discussion about using and extending Kaltura for 
personal use, academic use and enterprise solutions for rich-media knowledge 
management.

This lecture is an open invitation to learn more, try out and become a part of 
this fast growing exciting open source solution.

== About the Lecturer ==

Passionate about people, ideas, technology and video; Always ready to chat 
about innovative ideas or creative solutions, Zohar is a community technology 
activist and programmer. Among his interests are the study of communities, 
collaboration, open source, digital art, Video and 3D.

Zohar works at Kaltura where he heads Developer Relations & Community.

He is a fellow manager of flashoo.co.il, the Israeli Flash Platform developer 
community, founder of WebiTalks the Israeli web developer community and 
frequently speaks at web events worldwide.

Twitter: [http://twitter.com/zohar @zohar] and his [http://www.zoharbabin.com/ 
fresh new Blog].

A video artist by heart, developer by night. :)

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various topics that are related to open source code and to computers. In case 
you are interested to give a talk, or that you have a suggestion for a talk 
that interests you, we'll be happy to hear from you.

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