User:Hecker/GrantStrategy/Video

The following is blue-sky thinking about a possible Mozilla-related program according to my personal framework for strategic grantmaking:

• Problem: The Mozilla project wants to promote the use of open video formats, but proprietary video formats are well-entrenched in the market.
• Entrepreneurial partner: TBD.
• Internal champion(s): TBD.
• Short-term goal: Get more people making, remixing, and distributing video in open formats.
• Long-term vision: Use open source technologies and practices to help spark a new wave of video- and filmmakers rooted in the values, communities, and technologies of the open web.
• Strategy and analysis: TBD.
• Activities: Activities under the proposed open video program might include:
  • funding of the Open Video Alliance and related activities to help promote open video formats
  • sponsorship of competitions, challenges, workshops, and other events to promote the use of open video formats.
• Funding: TBD, but should be consistent with the guidelines above.
• Other partners: TBD, but could include
  • companies creating products and services in support of open video creation and distribution
  • universities with video and film academic programs