<videovortex> EngageMedia November Update

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NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
RECENTLY...
Completion of Sarawak Gone
EngageMedia’s Operations Manager is also a film-maker, media artist  
and composer. In October Andrew Garton (aka Mr G, or AG) released The  
Headman, completing the micro-docs series Sarawak Gone. The series was  
produced to sustain awareness of the persistent decline of indigenous  
life and culture in East Malaysia on the island of Borneo... more


Independent Media groups work together to get Merapi News online
Combine Resource Institute along with community radio networks have  
responded to the disaster at the Merapi Volcano in Yogyakarta by  
collaborating on an online news space JALIN MERAPI. The aim is to  
coordinate community responses and keep up to date with news on the  
ground.

AirPutih Calls for Volunteers
Teams from AirPutih have gone to the Mentawai islands following the  
earthquake there, Yogyakarta following the volcano eruption, and  
Wasior, West Papua, following the floods, to secure communication  
networks. More volunteers are urgently needed at all 3 sites. AirPutih  
was EngageMedia's technical partner at Camp Sambel. You can check the  
status updates of 'bencana' in Indonesia here. If you are able to  
volunter, please contact Suwandi Ahmad.
email: wandi at airputih.co.id, phone: +6281514440101

EngageMedia in NYC
In late September, Andrew Lowenthal and Enrico Aditjondro went to New  
York City to attend the Open Subtitles Summit and the Open Video  
Conference. The events were followed by a number of university  
appearances and a suite of entertaining and inspiring videos covering  
the trip ... more

Video Sprint at Plone Conference
EngageMedia andUnweb ran a very successful video development 'sprint'  
as part of the 2010 Plone Conference, in Bristol, UK. Plone is one of  
the key technologies EngageMedia is built on. The video sprint focused  
on improving Plone's handling of video and the features available ...  
more

Komas FreedomFilmFest
Yerry, EngageMedia's Indonesian Content and Outreach Coordinator  
attended the 7th FreedomFilmFest, held in Malaysia October 16-17. The  
film 'Hak Dinafikan' by Orang Asli film makers Abri Yok Chopi & Shafie  
bin Dris won 'The Most Outstanding Human Rights Documentary'. 14 other  
human rights films were also screened at the festival which was  
attended by more than 1,000 people ... more

1010 Action!
Engagemedia's Jakarta team recently took part in their local episode  
of the 10/10/10 Global Work Party: 1010 Action! by screening videos  
from T4RA. The event was supported by The Climate Project Indonesia in  
collaboration with The Body Shop Indonesia ... more

Pesta Blogger 2010
The annual gathering of Indonesian bloggers took place in Jakarta on  
October 30. This year's event included people active on online social  
networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Engagemedia took part in the  
breakout session 'Video for Change & Video for Distribution', to  
discuss open source content and sofware. 2 videos from engagemedia.org  
were also screened ... more

UPCOMING...
EngageMedia.org Upgrade
We are making improvements to the software behind EngageMedia.org all  
the time, but this summer we will start the process of a major re- 
vamp. We'll be looking at improving ease of use and deploying a fresh  
new design in the new year, as well as a major upgrade of our free  
software video web application, Plumi. We're always looking for  
feedback, so if there's something you'd like to see on the site, let  
us know!

Plumi 3.1.1
This week EngageMedia and Unweb released another minor version of  
Plumi - the free software video-sharing web application, based on the  
Plone CMS. Several bugs were squished, and improvements made to the  
way videos can be shared through social networks such as Facebook, and  
blogs like Wordpress. You can find a list of improvement on the Plumi  
blog.

OTHER NEWS...
Welcome Back New Matilda
Australia's favourite independent news, satire and analysis site is  
back online. But the hardworking editors need help to stay there ...  
newmatilda.com

TIPS...
Get embed With Your Videos
It just got even easier to add EngageMedia videos to your website or  
blog. We've made the embed code more manageable to avoid huge blocks  
of text. Copy the "embed" code and paste it onto your web page. If  
you're using something like Wordpress or Drupal, use full HTML mode  
when editing. Here's another tip: If you think the video is too large,  
change the width to '320' and the height to '240'. We think it's nice!
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

Eviction(S)
This film attempts to connect two places (Manila and Tokyo) by tracing  
the paths of global capital.

Tantangan Perempuan (Women's Challenges)
The Alliance of Women Merangin (APM) has been working to defend  
women's rights for more than 10 years, but there are still some people  
in their village who do not accept their activities.

International Tribunal for Timor Leste: Is it possible?
Interview with Professor Clinton Fernandes, a long time supporter of  
Timor Leste and history consultant for BALIBO the movie and author of  
Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the independence of East  
Timor.

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