In order to upload a video file to the V2V network you have to perform the following three steps:

1. Encode and save your video file as a vp3 encoded quicktime or avi file

Please follow the V2V naming convention:

v2v_myfilename.mov|avi

Check the HOWTO at:

http://v2v.cc/info.php#vp3

2. go to http://www.v2v.cc/form and fill the form with some information about your film

Submitting the form will generate a .info file that will be downloaded automatically to your hard drive

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.

[image:28,left,10,10,0]For some time now the idea of utilising Peer-2-Peer structures to assemble a user-built distribution platform has been circulating. Recently, in the framework of the first europe wide D-A-S-H workshop, a concrete proposal has been made to establish a system for the sharing of video. Long-term we believe that we can assemble a sustainable and scalable platform. Nevertheless t