Chapel Hill Technology Advisory Committee

[Terri Buckner <tbuckner AT ibiblio.org>]

Information on UNC's Open Video Project can be found at 
http://www.open-video.org.

Seems to me like this issue is a recycling of the open standards 
discussion we have had so many times over the past several years. I 
would would encourage the town to treat video (all multimedia) files as 
public documents/archives, even if the state does not require us to do so.

As most of you will recall, the Manager and the Mayor put us on notice 
back in June that they don't consider what we submitted in April to be 
an official technology plan. IMHO, getting that plan restructured and 
officially submitted and received should be the #1 committee priority. 
It could help us focus on issues like this and the one Will raised last 
night while the infrastructure group works on wireless. I submitted a 
draft one-pager back in July that I would like to see discussed at the 
December meeting (if we have one).

Terri


chtechboard AT willraymond.org wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I think we'd do much better going with open source, non-proprietary solutions
> like UNC's Open Video Project which will cost quite a bit less, is dedicated
> to open formats that'll stand the test of time and are modifiable for
> any of our Town's unique needs.
>
> Besides Granicus' exclusive use of Windows Media Player 9 for playback,
> they appear to hold your content "in trust" as part of the package.
>
> Will
>
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