embed for climatecampTV

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The 4th UK Camp for Climate Action is due to run in Edinburgh, Scotland from 21-24 August, where the principal target for direct action protest will be the Royal Bank of Scotland, because of its financing of climate-change-fuelling projects such as the exploration of the Canadian Tar Sands. (see http://climatecamp.org.uk for more information).

We are inviting you to add an embed to your site or blog for all the latest video news from the Climate Camp. Climate Camp TV will be operating throughout the Camp, producing discussion shows in its unique wind- and solar-powered TV studio inside the Camp itself, and regular video news reports from the heart of the protest action. The embed already contains 50 or 60 films, and will update automatically with films as they are posted during the Camp and beyond.

The embed code is here: http://visionon.tv/web/climatecamptv/syndicate/-/wiki/Main/Embed%20climatecamptv

Please let us know that you have embedded it, and we will direct traffic to your site through social media and valid links.

For any further information, please email us.

Many thanks

ClimatecampTV

Here's an announcement for the visionOntv TV reporter's course at this year's Climatecamp.

CITIZEN TV REPORTER TRAINING with Climate Camp TV
WHERE: The Camp For Climate Action, Edinburgh (see http://climatecamp.org.uk on Thursday 19th August for more details)

WHEN: 11.00-13.00 Saturday 21st August
Make the news you don't see on the news.
Lack of experience no barrier. Bring any gear you have (camera, laptop, stills, smart phone)
Then come and join the CCTV team in our wind- and solar-powered TV studio during CCA 2010!
Look forward to seeing you. If you would like to join the Climate Camp TV crew during this year's climate camp, please send us an email

Richard / Hamish / Kim / Matt / Paul (visionOntv - Climate Camp TV

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Web activism conference: dotActivist

Turnfront is organising a conference on using the web for activism on 7th August in London.

It will have a mixture of presentations from activists and technologists, along with time for more open conversations between the participants. The talks will cover activist video, open source social media, hi-tech direct action and online democracy (to name a few).

You can register at: http://turnfront.com/dotactivist

The aim is to go beyond the well-rehearsed conversations about how online campaigning ‘must be done’ and explore exciting new possibilities involving emergent technologies and creative ideas. We’ll also hear about experiences from activists who have deployed some of these ideas in the field and learn from what works and what doesn’t.

Along with the presentations, there will be plenty of time for networking and open conversations so that everyone can share their ideas and experience. The event has been designed to inspire and provoke discussion in equal measure.

Bio's

Hamish Campbell - founder of visionOntv, who has worked for the Undercurrents media NGO for 10 years. His footage from the Genoa protest in 2001 was used this year to sentence 69 Italian police to prison for human rights abuses. His "ruffcuts" distribution project was one of the most successful of its kind before the age of web video. He was a founder of European newsreal, a radical news magazine screened around the world. He made the video for the Kingsnorth climate camp appeal last year, testifying to illegal stop and search searches by the police, and screened in the Houses of Parliament.

Richard Hering - founder of visionOntv. Was an international award-winning investigative reporter for British television, revealing, among other things, the effects of Chinese nuclear tests and stopping the illegal mahogany trade from the Brazilian Amazon. He made the first ever UK mass-audience film on environmental direct action. He now aims to build an open video network which will take on the mainstream media corporations.

visionOntv - the news you don't see on the news, an online tv station with content which is very, very different. But much more than this, it is a set of tools to enable people to use video content for social change.

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Programmers outline to do list

Our project is based on liferay: http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/tech-specs

* RSS aggregation into the liferay web content.
This is to bring media RSS items into the CMS from external sites and then use the asset publisher ( http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Asset+Publisher+Portlet) to display them and create a tag-based RSS feed to the media player embed/portal.

* Customisation of Open source media player (with playlists and embedding) to create a liferay portlet.
this will allow us to display on our site aggregated video content from other websites and as an embedded media player on other sites.

* Configuration of liferay CMS including customisation of portlets
This will bring an overall TV look and feel to the liferay CMS including working with our designer with CSS and themes.

* Badges – participation rewards (automated)
Creating a set of fun, aspirational communities – device of percentage of completeness of profile like Linkedin – to encourage photos and full profiles by members.

Liferay is building a social capital engine so we need to plug into this:
5 levels –
1. Non-member viewers
2. Members
3a. Press Reporter – gained after you make 3 text reports
3b. Video Reporter / – gained after you make 3 video reports
3c. Commenter – gained after you make 3 comments
4a. Columnist – gained after 3 text reports promoted to front page, gives automated publishing to front page
4b. Producer – 3 promoted video reports (published on one of main channels)
5. Core crew

Add badges to posts for your status and on user pages.

Possible fun badges Film maker – references – radical / hippie / conspiracy theorist / ideological anarchist / culture vulture.

* Create a custom install of http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/

* Create a custom version of http://www.getmiro.com/publish/custom/

* LATER Pushing of video content out to torrent files for distributed backup. Making the whole media side of the project work P2P

For all climate campers: Citizen TV Reporter Training

Saturday 24th July 2010
10am-6pm Come and meet everyone and watch some films at 7pm on Friday 23rd July

Where: Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
EH1 1EYCost: Free / donationPlaces are limited, so please fill in the application form opposite. Lack of experience is no barrier. Commitment to
making social change with video is much more important!

Video Training for Social Change

Make the news you don't see on the news.

visionOntv has created easy
templates for rapid-turnaround citizen
video news reports.

These reports can be made by absolute beginners, or by people with skills
but little time.

Make watchable and effective films for the widest possible audience.

Our training programme is bold and unique. We have taken away the obstacles
to making effective films by radically simplifying the whole process. Come
to the workshop to learn how to make fast-turnaround video news reports. Our
production templates will enable you to make films with whatever equipment
you already possess. You can even make videos with no camera at all!

Please bring the items of portable recording equipment you have - video
camera, stills camera, mobile phone, laptop computer. We will use them
during the workshop.
Please note: to complete your productions, an extra session on Sunday
morning (in a local cafe) may be necessary.

A joint production with Undercurrents.

Balloon Power

This 5 minuet clip is an excerpt from a longer documentary which started in January 2010 and is a work in progress. During a 2 week workshop at London's Tate Modern entitled 'Disobedience Makes History' (labofii) which was discussing the links between art and civil disobedience. The gallery attempted to censor the content and police the course. Incensed by the hypocrisy and passionately moved to speak out against sponsorship by BP, the participants made a series of art interventions aimed at opening debate on this issue and encouraging Tate to drop BP by 2012 in time for the opening of Tate Modern 2. Film by Sharon Salazar/sound by the bad sound faery/music by Phill Garwood/music by Carbon Town Cryers/dobroide sea waves/inchandney clifftop seabirds/robinhood underwater bubbles/the freesound project. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

visionOntv has some funding

Money has made us more cheerful, but still slow, we are held up with some technology not being finished yet to move to the next stage. But the money has allowed us to build much more soled foundations - so feeling better to be building on better foundations.

Http://visionon.tv