Software

Popcorn.js to 1.0

A stable release of popcorn.js that includes an API, documentation, examples and unit testing. A release that can be used professionally and is easy for developers to build on.

Butter to 1.0

A front end build tool that allows non developers to generate html5 video pages that use popcorn.js. Detail here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/butter

This will continue on work done in Q4 2010 and will be a fully functional release

National Film Board of Canada Educational Tool

In collaboration with the Spanish development company A Navalla Suiza (http://anavallasuiza.com/) and students from Seneca College, create working demos of a video tool for educators. The tool would allow teachers to create "lesson plans" by choosing regions of NFB films and associating these regions with maps and wikipedia articles, which would then auto-generate an HTML5 lesson plan.

Web presence for Web Made Movies + Popcorn.js

In addition to documentation and repository information for popcorn.js, a gallery of demos. (think http://www.demoslam.com)

A separate website will highlight and provide updates on Web Made Movies productions.

Innovation Challenges and Partnerships

OK GO

Launch an innovation challenge/contest to based on OK GO's video catalogue. The challenge would be to use popcorn.js and other open video technologies to create a series of video demos that show off HTML5. A "remix contest" but with the web rather than the music.

BAVC/Zero Divide

In co-production with the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), design a curriculum for student filmmakers to create short videos on local non-profits that incorporate popcorn.js

This curriculum will then be extended to youth groups across the USA.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Create and assemble a series of demos for CPB executive to grasp potential of Open Video, with ultimate goal of building HTML5 framework for their American Archive project with associated grant.

Creative Capital

A series of retreats to bring developers and media artists together to develop new technologies and narrative approaches to online video. Participants will develop a series of productions that will be jointly funded by Mozilla and Creative Capital, with the intention of engaging career artists to adopt Open Video technologies that will have high impact and visibility.

Productions

Radical Cartography

Strong interest from NFB commissioning editors to pursue an exploration of "Radical Cartography", based in part on the work of Jeffrey Warren and Grassrootsmapping.org

Little Brother

Adapt Cory Doctorow's novel Little Brother to the web. As the themes of the novel revolve around teenagers and hacker culture, adapt the work so it can be performed by teenagers, each taking a "scene" as their own. Use technologies such as popcorn.js as opportunities for learning around the real-world technologies Doctorow uses in the book.

Arte

Work with the French/German broadcaster Arte to apply popcorn.js to some of their existing online content. Implementation will be with Upian, a french development house.

Kansas State Video Project

Work with Michael Wesch and students to create a follow up to "The Machine is Us/ing Us" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE) with popcorn.js

Schedule

Q1 Jan - Mar

• launch early version of butter and improved version of popcorn
• launch WMM and popcorn.js web presence
• meeting with CPB in Washington DC
• Create proposal for Radical Cartography, submit to NFB for development
• Demo of NFB educational tool
• Initial collaboration with KSU
• Seneca students working intensively on creating plugins for popcorn.js and Butter, and export functionality for desktop video applications ie Final Cut Pro
• Dave, Brett and Ben meet to brainstorm concepts around Little Brother, create ideas to explore for Seneca
• launch OK GO contest

Q2 April - June

• Curriculum for BAVC developed
• KSU project due end of June
• Seneca Students begin creating Little Brother interface proof of concepts
• Shooting Radical Cartography
• Developing demos and technology with CPB

July - September

• Editing and Web Development of Radical Cartography
• Open Video Conference
• Building CPB technology
• First Creative Capital summit
• New development round with Bocoup on popcorn + butter - release 1.0
• BAVC Factory / Chicago Public Library create Little Brother "trailer"

October - December

• Radical Cartography in film festivals
• Launch CPB
• Little Brother contributions opened to the public, start making noise