In a five-day seminar in Weimar, in May 2003, the participants discussed what the actual impact of open source and open publishing concepts could be for grassroots activism and the fight against racism and exclusion.

During this workshop the idea of an exchange network for effective sharing of high-bandwith material was presented. Video material, in particular, should be distributed widely under a creative commons license that explitely enables the use and the re-use of the offered content.

But this network, which was later dubbed V2V, could serve a wide range of purposes: from a clearing house that researches and presents open standards for the encoding, sharing and meta-tagging of audiovisuals to a distributed content provider which provides unfettered access to a collaboratively curated as well as automatically updated and archived film programme.