Detailed Roadmap & Work plan

18 months

• popcorn.js is an active development community with quarterly releases
• Professional, amateur and student developers are contributing code
• other semantic video initiatives are using the library and interfacing with the lab (ie Link TV View Change), building their own services on top of our code
• Professional filmmakers are invited to join the lab and propose projects for the lab to tackle. The lab is able to "deliver" results.
• A diverse collection of HTML5 demos/episodes around Open Web concepts exist as reference implementations for other filmmakers to understand the creative potential of open video
• A front end (butter) exists in Alpha that large amounts of people are using to create semantic video
• HTML5 video is perceived in both the filmmaking and software communities as not only a viable alternative to flash, but a technology that promises more

End of 2010

• regroup!
• continued work with Seneca CDOT on popcorn.js
• Begin development on Butter - the front end application that will allow anyoe to upload video and marry it with meta-data

October-November

• Software Sprint #4 – Lebanon
• Web Made Movies episode #4
• popcorn.js 0.5
• Software Sprint #5 – Barcelona, Drumbeat Festival

September October

• Software Sprint #3 – Open Video Conference, NYC
• Web Made Movies episode #2 – 24 hour film contest with OVC
• popcorn.js 0.4
• New round of students join project at Seneca College

August-September

• popcorn.js 0.3
• Invites to other video software hackers to join the initiative

July-August

• launching of webmademovies.org, a blog and demo showcase
• Premiere of Web Made Movies episode #1 at Whistler Summit
• Software Sprint #2 – FISL conference, Porto Allegre Brazil
• Web Made Movies episode #2 – What is FISL?
• popcorn.js 0.2

June 2010

• creation of popcorn.js – Javascript library for video
  • launch of a javascript library to maniplate browser based video
  • Associated resources to support development, ie IRC, Github, Lighthouse

• Software Sprint #1 - partnership with Seneca College's Centre for Development of Open Technology
  • Continuing the tradition of Seneca/Mozilla partnership, the team behind the succesful porting of Processing to processing.js will begin the first HTML5 video javascript library for browser based video

• Editing of initial videos for WebMadeMovies Episode #1 – what is the open web?
  • Content for this intitial sprint will include interviews with Jonathan Zittrain, Joi Ito, interviews from ROFLCon, local motors, The Village Telco and the GrassRootsMapping project to map the Louisiana Oil Spill
• popcorn.js 0.1
  • a first release is open to the community

Budget considerations:

• Developers: Senecca (but do we want other developers as well?)
• A lead geek? Part of magnet for other people's money and content
• project manager (anna) or hacker (Corbin? sp?
• pool of money for other lead geeks?
• money for content or web heroes content (contest based, not us doing production)
• events / travel?

• recruit  film-making talent (e.g., ITFA) to bring projects to WMM lab. "This gets shown at Sundance in 2012 as the future of interactive film" (maybe one documentary, one fiction, one commercial, one granola, etc.) 

• missing?: epic gathering of geeks who you know will be actively contributing to platform and working for next 5 years on the project. Do we want to add an event like this to roadmap?
  
• OVC: could have day before or after where braintrust is together to drive this stuff. Like the mini summit for WMM.