COSSFest 2010

On April 9th & 10th, Calgary Open Source Software advocates held a 2 day festival to discuss the challenges facing open source software, and promote its adoption.

Downloadable and Creative Commons licensed recyclable copies of the video coverage can be found on Internet Archive. (Anyone without full Flash support in their browser might need to access the lectures that way.) But for YouTube hosted copies, I decided to experiment with YouTube Annotation Hyperlinks. They allow you to link from within one YouTube video to another. This allows me to show a brief summary of every event, and let the viewer click through if they would like to learn more.

Video - WATCHMEN review for R4NT.com

Zack Snyder's film adaptation of Alan Moore's WATCHMEN is as brilliant as Moore's novel. Gary and I recorded our thoughts pertaining to its awesomeness as we drove home from the theater. The video was then used as part of R4NT.com's WATCHMEN review.

To sum up: Movie good. Alan Moore is brilliant but crazy for saying he'll never watch the movie. Zack Snyder's mental state is unknown at this time.

The master render is a 255 MB WMV file. There is a brief time lapse shot of me driving at night at the end which is potentially recyclable.

The video is placed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.