Drumbeat/UniSubs/roadmap

18 months

The definitive open toolset for subtitle and caption creation.

• 100,000+ videos captioned
• Community site established as the "wikipedia for subtitles"
  
• User communities around the world
• 100+ organizations using toolset
• Open subtitle lookup adopted by major video players and hosts
  
• Established web standard for sharing subtitles across sites
  

End of 2010

Stable toolset. Scaling up community.

• 1.0 subtitling widget released. Polished toolset stable and ready for broad use.
  
• Scaling up subtitling community. Translation teams established.
  
• Organizations with dedicated pages on community site.
  
• Summit meeting to explore collaboration with other open captioning projects.
  
• Collaborations with organizations on metadata and html5 accessibilty standards.
  

September

Refining the toolset. Building community.

• Beta subtitling widget released.
  
• Users able to test subtitling and embedding videos.
  
• Organizations begin using the toolset for their videos.
  
• Community website launched.
  
• Firefox subtitling extension released.
  

To date

• Alpha subtitling widget released.
• Users able to create subtitles on sample videos.
  
• Growing community on Drumbeat and universalsubtiles.org