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The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF ) is a
501(c)(3)
non-profit organization whose mission is to "enable and support independent, non-
corporate creativity and
political engagement."
Its primary project is a
free and
open-source software
Internet television platform called
Miro , formerly named Democracy Player.
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History
It was founded in February 2005 and is based in
Worcester, Massachusetts . The
Downhill Battle project precedes PCF.
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PCF has received financial support from the
Rappaport Family Foundation ,
Mitch Kapor 's
Open Source Applications Foundation , the Surdna Foundation, Knight Foundation, and other private donors.
On May 29, 2007, the
Mozilla Foundation announced that it had awarded PCF a grant to continue their work on its open-source video projects.
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Projects
Miro – a free/open-source broadcatching software application which allows subscribing to
web feeds of downloadable audio and video
Miro Guide – a web-based directory of audio and video web feeds, integrated by default into the application
Miro Community – a free web hosting service for user-submitted video; hosts mostly
Theora -formatted video in HTML5-compatible web browsers
Amara (formerly Universal Subtitles) – crowd-source translations
The Channel Channel – a project to provide one-minute previews of internet channels; last updated in January 2007
Video Bomb – a
folksonomy -driven video directory
Broadcast Machine – a desktop application allowing easy publishing of video files and updated internet television channels; last updated February 21, 2006
Miro Video Converter – an application to convert any video to
MP4 ,
Theora or formats compatible with
Android ,
iPod ,
iOS (
iPhone ,
iPod Touch ,
iPad ), and
PlayStation Portable devices
See also
References
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