hi pd'ers, here's some info about an independent media meeting around G8's meeting @ Evian these days.

We (a team from Barcelona) will get to Geneva by van tomorrow and will try to run an mp3 streaming (would love ogg, though) using pd with a patch to mix incoming streams, plus ogg tracks on hd, plus soundcard input..

there will also be some "Real" streamings, but it's clear we need free software asap.. anyone could achieve interesting results with pd/pidip/ffmpeg?

there are projects from local radios emitting RF to pick us from the net and put in the air.

anybody willing to do their stuff in here or be around and help check/redistribute is very welcome

we are hoping to have spanish web+ resources about pd, we'll tell more when we have news.

what about a kind of webapp to share patches, abstractions, etc? if someone knows about such a piece of software it would be really interesing. if not we can probably work it out.

we will be publishing information @ http://barcelona.indymedia.org write back for any need

see you around! r

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From: Florian Schneider fls@kein.org To: v2v@mail.kein.org Subject: [v2v] stream started... Date: 29 May 2003 15:34:08 +0200

GENEVA 03 livestream http://www.geneva03.org/static/live.ram

GENEVA03 livestream is a temporary autonomous TV project broadcasting during the days around the G-8 summit in Evian. It will cover the mass protests and blockades in the area of the Lac Leman in Switzerland.

From May 29 to June 3, a continuous livecast will be streamed on the internet and picked up and redistributed by local and international broadcasters, as well as projected in streets, bars and theatres around the globe.

GENEVA03 livestream presents live reports from the rallies and manifestations, protests and blockades as well as studio debates and talk shows, movies and meetings, parties, vj- and dj-sessions and concerts.

The GENEVA03 livestream studio is hosted in the cultural center l'usine in the very center of Geneva http://www.usine.ch. The video stream produced in the theatre will be screened around the clock in the cinema next door.

In order to cover the protests between Geneva, Lausanne and Anmasse in real time, media activists will work from the "EVERYONE-IS-AN-EXPERT" mobile studio van, which - with a self-adjusting bi-directional satellite dish - will provide a mobile internet connection and transmit live-footage from the roaming protests.

For GENEVA03 livestream net-activists, indymedia reporters, independent filmakers and videographers from many different countries have joined together in order to explore new forms of collaboration in film and videomaking.

"Long-term we believe that we can assemble a sustainable and scalable platform for audio-visual materials of a critical and independent nature", the initiators say. Some days before the G-8 summit they set up V2V, a video filesharing network.

The idea of V2V is to share video material of a reasonable quality and to guarantee its availability within the most popular filesharing networks (edonkey, gnutella, bit torrent) through a network of dedicated servers that mirror the material until such time as it has spread widely in the P2P-networks.

Each file is accompanied by metadata in an xml .info file and produced as an searchable RSS feed for people to integrate into their own sites and is also published on its own websites. http://v2v.indymedia.de

V2V suggests a set of specifications for the encoding with half of the standard broadcast quality as a compromise between a modest upload-time and a tolerable resolution for screening, in order to facilitate the global exchange of images. http://v2v.indymedia.de/static/info.shtml#vp3

V2V began at the end of May 2003 with the participation of half a dozen servers. In the context of the GENEVA03 livestream the V2V video sharing network will be tested as a tool for production, distribution and archiving. Works to be delivered over the V2V system will vary from quickly edited footage suitable for use as a stock archive to finished films and documentaries.

The activists are calling groups and individuals to join the V2V server-network and to contribute footage locally and remotely.

Please contact

• To contribute video material: v2v@mail.kein.org

• To participate in the server network: v2v-server-admin@mail.kein.org

• For picking up and rebroadcasting the live stream: info@geneva03.org

GENEVA03 LIVE STREAM preliminary schedule

http://www.geneva03.org/static/live.ram

irc://irc.indymedia.org/live irc://irc.kein.org/g8

THURSDAY 29

<04 pm> #liveprotest: Wireless broadcast from the first rally in Lausanne

<08 pm> #studio debate: "Freedom of movement and Freedom of communication" with Alan Toner, Jamie King, Franck Düvell, Sandro Mezzadra and others

<11 pm> Freedom cocktail and public keysigning party in l'usine

FRIDAY 30 aka Freedom Friday

<01 am> various VJ sets

<11 am> #liveprotest: Wipe out WIPO, IOM, WTO! Freedom Rally in Geneva: From the place des droits de l'homme to IOM to WIPO to WTO (International Organization on Migration, World Intellectual Property Organisation, World Trade Organisation) <03 pm> Voices from the villages 1

<09 pm> Globalisation now! Talkshow from l'usine

SATURDAY 31

<11 am> radical breakfast tv

<01 am> Movement of Movements 1

<03 pm> voices from the villages 2

<04 pm> Movement of Movements 2

<06 pm> #studio debate: Image-production between open source and surveillance

<10 pm> #liveprotest: Fire and noise Broadcast from the protest fires around the lake and electronic sound collages

SUNDAY 1

<08 am> #liveprotest: Blockade

mixing live streams from the everyone-is-an-expert mobile, from wireless camera units, interviewing people who bring their tapes into the studio and overvoicing mainstream tv-channels

<11 pm> voices from the villages 3

<12 pm> #studio debate: on the road to cancun - how to gon on?

MONDAY 2

<10 am> Videoperformance l'usine

<1 pm> Presentations in forde

<5 pm> Panel debate in forde

<8 pm> Gangster films from Africa

TUESDAY 3

<1 pm> Presentations in forde

<5 pm> Panel debate in forde

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