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MediaMosa Contest

Develop your MediaMosa Application and win a minitrip to Maastricht. We ask you to develop new tools and functionalities in MediaMosa. We are looking for examples of MediaMosa in mobile applications, MediaMosa in interactive video, weblectures, live streaming, MediaMosa and transcripting technology etc.

 

Welcome to the MediaMosa Development Competition!
>>> OPEN TO ALL <<<


MediaMosa Contest –Develop your MediaMosa Application
March 29th - November 1st 2011

MediaMosa
MediaMosa is open source software that allows you to setup a full-featured, webservice oriented media management and media distribution platform.

With MediaMosa you can build a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform, which facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding and streaming servers. A MediaMosa platform offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users. MediaMosa is based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture and is designed to support content streaming applications by providing a back-end-, audio- and video-infrastructure.

MediaMosa is a free and open software (GPLv2) package. It is based on the Drupal CMS and supports the use of several other Open Source software tools such as FFmpeg.

MediaMosa Contest
The MediaMosa Contest is sponsored by the SURFnet/Kennisnet Innovation Programme. The SURFnet/Kennisnet Innovation Programme is a collaboration that started in 2004. Together, SURFnet and Kennisnet aim to facilitate ICT innovation for the education sector, ranging from primary education to higher education.

With the MediaMosa Contest SURFnet and Kennisnet aim at stimulating further development and uptake of MediaMosa.

MediaMosa Applications
With this contest we ask you to develop new tools and functionalities in MediaMosa. We are looking for examples of MediaMosa in mobile applications, MediaMosa in interactive video, weblectures, live streaming, MediaMosa and transcripting technology etc. For some examples: http://www.mediamosa.org/projects.

In order to participate in the MediaMosa Contest, the applicants should submit their developed MediaMosa application to www.mediamosa.org. By submitting we mean that the open source software code and documentation of the MediaMosa application should be shared with the MediaMosa Community.

MediaMosa Price
By winning the MediaMosa contest the applicants win a mini-trip for two persons to Maastricht the Netherlands, containing:

  • 2 nights in a middle-class hotel in Maastricht (including breakfast), in the period December 9th till December 31st 2011.
  • 1 dinner for 2 persons in a gourmet restaurant in Maastricht.
  • Travel costs, with a maximum of 500 euro’s in total.

 

MediaMosa Contest –Terms & conditions

Participation

  • Participation in the MediaMosa Contest is open for national and international profit and non-profit organisations and individual developers as well.
  • A new MediaMosa application must be submitted by one person. This person is also the administrative contact. This person will be considered to be the main applicant.
  • Organisations may submit multiple proposals.
  • If you want to participate in the contest, please announce your participation via the MediaMosa Forum Topic "MediaMosa Contest".

Deadline

  • The deadline for the submission of the MediaMosa applications is Tuesday, November 1st 2011.
  • By submitting of applications is meant:
    o    A description of the application in English, what are the functionalities, what is new, how can the application be
          used, an example of its use
    o    The software code in GPLv2
    o    Documentation in English
  • MediaMosa Applications must be submitted online on http://www.mediamosa.org.
  • The applicants will immediately receive confirmation of their submission by e-mail.

Questions
If you have questions about the MediaMosa contest, please contact Jocelyn Manderveld, Community Manager MediaMosa, by sending an email to Jocelyn.manderveld@surfnet.nl.

The judging procedure

  • The judging procedure consists of two stages. In the first round the judging committee compiles a short list of three MediaMosa Applications. In the second round three chosen MediaMosa Applications are open for voting on the MediaMosa website. The MediaMosa application with the highest ranking (based upon the votes) will win the MediaMosa Contest.
  • The judging committee will be formed by representatives of the organising partners and the members of the MediaMosa Programme Management Committee (http://www.mediamosa.org/content/organisation).
  • On November 15th 2011 the three MediaMosa applications open for voting will be announced on www.mediamosa.org.
  • During the MediaMosa Community Day on December 8th, 2011 the winner of the MediaMosa Contest will be announced.

Results and correspondence

  • The organisation of the MediaMosa contest will only enter into correspondence via e-mail and/or telephone with the main applicant. He/she needs to ensure that he/she can be contacted through an operational e-mail address and telephone number.
  • Decisions made by SURFnet regarding the interpretation of these terms and conditions are binding and final.

Disclaimer

  • The MediaMosa Contest is organised by SURFnet/Kennisnet Innovation Programme.
  • Applicants are responsible for the contents and nature of their MediaMosa application to the MediaMosa Contest.
  • Teams are responsible for ensuring that no Dutch or foreign legal obligations, no rules of public order or decency and no rights of third parties are violated. They must also ensure that their submission results in no unlawful act and/or in no damage to others. Teams indemnify the organising partners from any and all costs and damages that could result from infringing on these and other obligations.
  • SURFnet is not responsible for the information in the submissions by the contestants.
  • SURFnet reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this competition at any time.
  • The organising partners will appoint a jury and will determine and undertake the procedure for judging the proposals with diligence.
  • The judging committee will act in good faith in awarding the prize and reserves the right not to award prize
  • No rights can be derived from suggestions and instructional materials provided by the organising partners regarding the MediaMosa Contest.

MediaMosa & Maastricht
Maastricht is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, with complex and lively cultural overtones added over centuries by the Romans, Germans and French. This rich cultural palette is the secret behind the city’s attractiveness, drawing visitors to the historic city centre and a wealth of museums and festivals (http://www.vvv-maastricht.eu/city.html).

The river ‘Maas’ forms the heart of the city Maastricht. In Roman times this river was named ‘Mosa’ and the city was named ‘Mosa Trajectum’. For MediaMosa, ‘Mosa’ is the reference to the river Mosa, and then the ‘meander’ of the river referring to the pulse of the video signal.

References
The Kennisnet foundation is a public ict support organization in the Netherlands. Kennisnet encourages and supports the use of ICT in the daily curriculum of primary education, secondary education and vocational training. The mission of Kennisnet is ‘Learning to innovate with ict'.

SURFnet is a subsidiary of the SURF organisation, in which Dutch universities, universities for applied sciences and research centres collaborate nationally and internationally on innovative ICT facilities. SURFnet enables groundbreaking education and research. It designs and operates the hybrid SURFnet network and provides innovative services in the field of authentication and authorisation, online collaboration and video.