ginger's thoughts

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

Cross-posted from LinkedIn.

This is the annual release of my external-videos wordpress plugin and with the help of Andrew Nimmolo I'm proud to annouce we've reached version 1.0!

For the last 12 months, I've been trying to create a spinout from the CSIRO and I've learnt a thing or two about what works and what doesn't.

I wrote these predictions in the first week of January and meant to publish them as encouragement to think about where WebRTC still needs some work.

My new startup just released our MVP - this is the story of what got me here.

When I set out to improve accessibility on the Web and we started developing WebSRT - later to be renamed to WebVTT - I needed an example video to demonstrate captions / subtitles, audio descriptions, transcripts, navigation markers and sign language.

At the end of July, I gave a presentation about WebRTC and rtc.io at the WDCNZ Web Dev Conference in beautiful Wellington, NZ.

If you've been interested in WebRTC and haven't lived under a rock, you will know about Google's open source testing application for WebRTC: AppRTC.

deck.js is one of the new HTML5-based presentation tools.

I just finished reading Rob Manson's awesome book "Getting Started with WebRTC" and I can highly recommend it for any Web developer who is interested in WebRTC.

At the recent FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software and Standards) Developer Workshop, we had a massive focus on WebVTT and the state of its feature set.

Three weeks ago I attended TPAC, the annual meeting of W3C Working Groups.

I've just got off a call to the UK Digital TV Group, for which I gave a talk on HTML5 video accessibility (slides best viewed in Google Chrome).

I finished up at Google last week and am now working at NICTA, an Australian ICT research institute.

Six months ago I experimented with Web sockets for WebRTC and the early implementations of PeerConnection in Chrome.

The W3C HTML WG and the WHATWG are currently discussing the introduction of a <main> element into HTML.

I've just tried to come to terms with the latest state of TTML, the Timed Text Markup Language.

A few weeks ago, I had the honor to be appointed as part of the editorial team of the W3C HTML5 specification.

A bit over a week ago I gave a presentation at Web Directions Code 2012 in Melbourne.

With the latest developments in HTML5 and the still fairly new ARIA (Accessible Rich Interface Applications) attributes introduced by the W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative), browsers have now implemented many features that allow you to make your JavaS…

In January I attended the annual Australian Linux and Open Source conference (LCA).

The Open Video Conference that took place on 10-12 September was so overwhelming, I've still not been able to catch my breath!

Today we started a community group (CG) at the W3C for "Web Media Text Tracks": http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/.

Curious about any new requirements that the TV community may have for HTML5 video, I attended the W3C Web and TV Workshop in Hollywood last week.

Since 2007 I have organised the annual Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) developers workshop.

People have been asking me lots of questions about WebVTT (Web Video Text Tracks) recently.

In the last months, we've been working hard at the WHATWG and W3C to spec out new HTML markup and a JavaScript interface for dealing with audio or video content that has more than just one audio and video track.

Over the last weeks I've updated my "external videos" wordpress plugin.

On Wednesday, I gave a talk at Google about WebVTT, the Web Video Text Track file format that is under development at the WHATWG for solving time-aligned text challenges for video.

At the recent Linux conference in Brisbane, Australia, I promised a free copy of my book to the person that could send me the best idea for an HTML5 video application.

Working in the WHAT WG and the W3C HTML WG, you sometimes forget that all the things that are being discussed so heatedly for standardization are actually leading to some really exciting new technologies that not many outside have really taken note of yet.

In the past week, I was invited to an IBM workshop on audio/text descriptions for video in Japan.

On 14th October I gave a talk at Web Directions South on "HTML5 audio and video - using these exciting new elements in practice".

At this week's FOMS in New York we had one over-arching topic that seemed to be of interest to every single participant: how to do adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP for open codecs.

Today I gave a talk at the Open Video Conference about the state of the specifications in HTML5 for media accessibility.

Over the last two days we had the Open Subtitles Summit here in New York.

Lots is happening in open source multimedia land in the next few months.

On 23rd July, Ian Hickson, the HTML5 editor, posted an update to the WHATWG mailing list introducing the first draft of a platform for accessibility for the HTML5 <video> element.

For 2 months now, I have been quietly working along on a new Mozilla contract that I received to continue working on HTML5 media accessibility.

After two years of effort, the W3C Media Fragment WG has now created a Last Call Working Draft document.

I'm pretty proud of this, which is why I'm dedicating a short blog post to it: today, John and I released my first WordPress plugin as open source to the WordPress plugins site.

Google have today announced the open sourcing of VP8 and the creation of a new media format WebM.

In recent months, people in the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force developed two proposals for introducing caption, subtitle, and more generally time-aligned text support into HTML5 audio and video.

Recently, I was asked to review the W3C Media Annotations specifications as they are about to go into Last Call (a state that comes before the request for implementations at the W3C).

In my field of interest, namely Multimedia, there are not many women active in research and technology development.