[OLPC library] activities and bundles for G1G1, and more

[Michael Smolens]

Thanks for the intro SJ - nice seeing you, however briefly, in NY at  
OneWebDay.

Sebastian - would love to have a call to see how we can integrate  
dotSUB captioning/subtitling functionality into what Daily Motion is  
doing with OLPC, as well as perhaps other aspects of your offering.   
The easiest thing to do is to set up a time for a phone call so we can  
have a show & tell together.

And Natalia - no one ever thinks about subtitling music videos - but  
we feel there would be so much greater connection if people could  
actually understand the lyrics in their native languages as the listen/ 
watch the video.  Here is a link to a music video in 20 languages

http://dotsub.com/view/e72dd5fd-1729-4d6e-bb32-34a8f49faebe

In general, dotSUB enables web based video to be captioned subtitled  
from language A to language B either using an open, wiki type process  
for allowing users to do the work as volunteers, like Wikepedia for  
video, or in a closed environment, for corporations or projects that  
want professional translation.  As far as we know, we are the only  
technology available like this.

You can see how this works at the Twitter home page at http://twitter.com 
  - hit the watch video tab, you see a video open with an embed from  
our site - pick any of the 41 languages on the 'choose language' pull  
down menu, and the video will play with subtitles from that language.   
Hit the down arrow on your keyboard, and scroll through the  
languages.  All these were done with volunteers - and even more  
powerful this video is embedded on over 1500 other URLs, sites and  
blogs, of which 85% are in languages other than English.

All this was done with no phone calls, no money changing hands, and  
the video has been viewed more than 750,000 times, about twice as many  
times as the same video on YouTube.

We want to enable as much video into as many languages possible on  
OLPC as we can, so hopefully we can work together to make this happen.

Thanks again SJ






Michael L. Smolens
Founder & CEO
dotSUB llc - Any Film Any Language
360 East 72nd St. #C3104
New York, NY 10021 USA
michael at dotsub.com - email
1-917-742-0158 - tel
1-646-403-9944 - fax
mlsmolens - Skype
http://dotSUB.com - website




On Sep 26, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:

> Dear Sébastien,
>
> Two introductions :  Please meet Natalia Tsarkova, who runs
> i-concerts.com and is getting music videos from Africa (and  the music
> tracks behind some of them) for release as bundles for G1G1 this year.
> She is interested in feeding part of the olpc portal on DM, and
> producing some new content every month for release over the coming
> year.
>
> Meet also Michael Smolens, who runs dotsub, a multilingual video
> subtitling project.
>
> Natalia and Michael, Sébastien is spearheading the olpc projects @
> Dailymotion (such as dailymotion.com/olpc).  The portal he has set up
> has a good framerate and encoding for the laptops, and he can help
> convert other media formats as well.
>
> All - we have a draft set of software, activities, and collections for
> this winter's OLPC giving program, which you can see here:
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2
>
> I would love to add more audio and video bundles to the lot.  10MB is
> a good size for a content bundle, as a rule of thumb.  I copy Joy and
> Siobhan and our public library list to keep everyone in the loop.
>
> Regards,
> SJ
> --
> 617 529 4266              skype:metasj
>
> ps - if any of you need XOs for your testing or work, or know
> developers that do, let me know.

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