Public Media Communities
Chris Beer
successful, some of them less so. One question I have is: is there a
community already out there that is successfully promoting interaction
and collaboration among technologists (and others) in public media?
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PubForge is an open space for collaborating on solutions and best
practices for public broadcasting on the web. We've got lots of smart
people throughout the system who can figure things out on their own,
but why reinvent things? The spirit of this space is collaboration and
the sharing of ideas, solutions, and code. If you're into that,
welcome aboard PubForge!
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Our primary mission is to harness the power of the Internet and other
new media platforms for the benefit of public broadcasters.
http://www.integratedmedia.org/
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(Defunct?) public broadcasting traffic news site with some extra
community features
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Current invites you to join or begin discussions about public TV,
public radio and other public media, including topics raised in
Current newspaper and Current.org.
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Public Media chat (#pubmedia for short) is a grassroots effort to
increase the dialogue amongst practitioners and supporters of public
purpose media.
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The PBS Connect walled garden, with a strong TV engineering community
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Public Radio Technology Forum, which has a very active mailing list
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PBCore Resources is a place to collaborate and share resources related
to PBCore, a metadata standard developed to exchange information about
audio/video media objects.
http://www.pbcoreresources.org/
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In my mind, all of these groups are either too high-level (about
strategy, announcements, etc), tangentially related, or too specific
(about PBCore, engineering issues, etc) for the kind of dialogue I'm
looking for. PubForge comes pretty close, though.
In addition to code4lib, which I mentioned in the previous email, some
of the work the BBC is doing with Backstage <http://
backstage.bbc.co.uk/> is appealing.