Open source challenging the incumbents: The video
After three straight days of traveling to close my quarter, I needed to unwind tonight. Given that I don't drink or smoke crack, I chose to create a video: "The Challengers of Open Source." Cheesy title, but I had The New Pornographers' song ("Challengers") running through my head and car stereo on the drive home from the airport. So be it.
What is the video "about"? Well, about some of trends guiding open source into more enterprises, but mostly about the great people I know in the open-source (mostly business) community. The best thing about open source is the exceptional crowd with which I get to run.
I know I missed some in this video - I simply couldn't find good photos or, if I did, they inexplicably didn't work in the video when converted (such was the case with Nat Friedman's that I pulled from Facebook).
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
here is an idea for you you can upload the material to kaltura and create a collaborative video and let other help with getting all the missing images or video, and/or create other versions
(we're also working on the 'download' feature, which will be available really soon)
you can do it either on the userzone
http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/corp/userzone
or even better, open a new page on the videowiki
http://www.kaltura.com/devwiki/index.php/Main_Page
at any rate, the result can be embedded on any page
Shay David, CTO
Kaltura