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History of the visionontv project
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as “open” rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project.
Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts video CD project. With the transitioning from dialup to broadband internet speed there was a possibility to move the distribution of screening quality video off physical media to the spreading peer2peer web.
As you will continue to see through my narration here my core thinking changes little.
The first dotcon (enclosures) boom had bust, the web was still a health open network though the “open” pioneers were being pushed out by more mainstream fashionista people, these people were being snapped up by the next wave of dotcon funding so the clock was ticking on the next boom (and attempt as enclosing the web for control and profit).
Fashionista´s were all over the open web, conferences, events, media. Geeks were developing open standards - each one unlinked/incompatible with the next it was a fun time for “open”. This flowering of geek culture had its fashionista side, there were 100 applications for zipping files or FTP and no easy to use open tools - the geek problem.
P from undercurrents got involved to do the funding side, a lot of “brainstorming” was done. During this time we see a “splitting” of the project. It was obvious that streaming video - that is a technology for watching video real time without having a local copy was going to grow to dominate the next dotcon boom and the fashionistas were buying into this big time.
This is a client server technology - from one to many - its old (traditional) media distribution. At the same time the was a subculture flowering or peer2peer technology being used for “free content” this was a “native” open web technology.
The “splitting” was around a miscommunication/misunderstanding of what was going to happen in the next 5 years. And “funding” pushed this in a bad way, it was easy to talk to funders about “online video” it was fashionista mainstream. Few had any thought to the “cost” of jumping on the dotcon fashionista wave. And in time the rise of the dotcons from the second boom that was rising for all to see.
The “brainstorming” lead to the project being renamed visionOntv - just for the funding and outreach - much easier to get funding. Why would anyone be interested in offlinetv and peer2peer technologies all the value was about “owning” online space. That is enclosing the commons was unthinkingly embraced as a good thing - a touch on controlfreekery.
This simple change was the first step to the project losing direction and stalling.

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History of the visionontv project
The original project was offlinetv and was a online network to setup screenings to bring people together and cross fertilize different radical campaigning groups. I was pushing it as “open” rebooting of the failing undercurrents video activism project.
Before this I had been making a meager living doing screenings by fundraising vie the copyleft ruffcuts video CD project. With the transitioning from dialup to broadband internet speed there was a possibility to move the distribution of screening quality video off physical media to the spreading peer2peer web.
As you will continue to see through my narration here my core thinking changes little.
The first dotcon (enclosures) boom had bust, the web was still a health open network though the “open” pioneers were being pushed out by more mainstream fashionista people, these people were being snapped up by the next wave of dotcon funding so the clock was ticking on the next boom (and attempt as enclosing the web for control and profit).
Fashionista´s were all over the open web, conferences, events, media. Geeks were developing open standards - each one unlinked/incompatible with the next it was a fun time for “open”. This flowering of geek culture had its fashionista side, there were 100 applications for zipping files or FTP and no easy to use open tools - the geek problem.
P from undercurrents got involved to do the funding side, a lot of “brainstorming” was done. During this time we see a “splitting” of the project. It was obvious that streaming video - that is a technology for watching video real time without having a local copy was going to grow to dominate the next dotcon boom and the fashionistas were buying into this big time.
This is a client server technology - from one to many - its old (traditional) media distribution. At the same time the was a subculture flowering or peer2peer technology being used for “free content” this was a “native” open web technology.
The “splitting” was around a miscommunication/misunderstanding of what was going to happen in the next 5 years. And “funding” pushed this in a bad way, it was easy to talk to funders about “online video” it was fashionista mainstream. Few had any thought to the “cost” of jumping on the dotcon fashionista wave. And in time the rise of the dotcons from the second boom that was rising for all to see.
The “brainstorming” lead to the project being renamed visionOntv - just for the funding and outreach - much easier to get funding. Why would anyone be interested in offlinetv and peer2peer technologies all the value was about “owning” online space. That is enclosing the commons was unthinkingly embraced as a good thing - a touch on controlfreekery.
This simple change was the first step to the project losing direction and stalling.
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OUTLINE HISTORY OF VISIONONTV
The funding took way to long to come through LINK
Conversation – we have to re-think the project as soon as the funding comes through as the current project was planed 3 years before the funding arrived. We now faced 3 issues to run this project.
1) The huge viewing figurers we had achieved in the run up to the project was based on SEO and linking verging on SPAM to play the basic google algorithm. This was seen by me as temporary path before moving onto our own “openweb” tech. This loop hole we pushed was going to be closed, the original plan was to use this temporary push to bring the “opentech” into being. By the time the funding came through this loop hole was already closing fast.
2) The tech we wonted to build was all taken up by a well founded USA NGO the Particularity Culture Foundation who suffered from the #geekproblem being pushed by #fashernistas agenda’s. PCF started out doing the right thing then failed due to funding agenda’s repeatedly. This stopped the core project from developing and later lead to the tech fund part of the project being frozen.
3) The second #dotcon boom was brewing and atavist and NGO types were flocking to the unthinking #fashernista agenda of embracing things like Facebook, Twitter, youtube etc. And these services had taken on a new generation of people who actually understood how the openweb works and then how to close it for corporate profit and social control.
With these 3 point in mind the project need to be refocused before being pushed into motion. R refused to do this and pushed the original project into motion with my reluctant consent – with the coureus of “the funders wont to see action”.
This first year we worked hard.
Coming up to the the AGM meeting at the year 1:
1) the viewing figurers faded fast and dropped by 90%
2) Non of the core PCF tech worked as advertised and after visiting them in the USA it was clear to me that millions of foundation $$$ were going to be waisted by there NGO funding agenders and with this the time and excitement of alt media withered.
3) The #dotcon world was heading to total dominance in every area and particular in the campaigning and activism areas were everywhere you could swing a cat a “social media” workshop was being run by #fashernistas people. This in parallel with the #encryptionsts suffocating and stagnating existing alt-media projects such as indymedia ended the possibility of projects outside the #dotcon siloes.
For me our core project could not compete. I told R we have to put the project into standby, explaining all this to the funders. It was obvious to me that the #dotcon dominance would last for a few years before the opportunity came round agen for a lively alt-media. We could fund the core project by runing parallel projects till this time then launch the core project at a right/good moment. This right/good moment was about two years ago but more on this latter.
This lead to a shouting match disagreement between me and R he was to keep spending the core funding (to inshore the second round came through) and as R sayed it would all work out fine. Me the point above.
This AGM was a bit of a pantomime
But we got though it, after this I laid out agen the need to put the core project into standby as it had no hope of working and we would just be wasting resources on this deadened.
This was the start of not addressing issues as a BLOCK in the face of this I took some time off. I got back to find after working with our “new volunteer” M for a few weeks that R had employed him as a member of visionontv using all the remaining share of P wages. The was clearly no process/agrement and a strong negative outcome against this expansion of the project. We see the clear split and open BLOCKING of process from here in.
The was no way R was going to address any issues so after some bad meetings we reached “agreement” that budget would be limited and R could carry on ONLY if he documented his failings as this was the value outside of social work or what we was pushing the project into now.
Over the next few years he raniged on this and pushed personal/privatised projects through the company, he ignored the limited budget and spent new funding each time a the original limit funding limit was reached.
When it was obverse that the wages part of the project was going to be used up with nothing but social work outcomes I proposed that we stop the project early to put the remaining wages into the restart budget (as the tech fund was these for this) so we would be ready to move fast when the time came.
Bad tempered BLOCKING meeting's with no outcome the remaining wages were spent on nothing and poured down the drain. I stopped my wages as I proposed R and M took there’s till the was nothing left.
A crap outcome but also an opportunity, the was non wages core funding left to keep the servers/domains running as well as a small income from youtube advertising. It was finally time to put the project in sustainable standby.
A few years went by with personal projects and small core project happening.
The time came two years or so ago when the geek trust in the #dotcons started to go mainstream then a year ago this was a mainstream media issue.
It was time for the project to be pushed back in motion hah! Fab lets move. By this time as you could image the core crew were tied and a bit broken, the BLOCKING which had become a habit contained with its own inersher.
This fast #reboot was both slow and painful, I got the OMN part first step built and tried to roll it out to limited affect. Then came up with the idea of the exhibition as a core part of VOTV in that it would be another path to get the OMN tools built and used to handeal the opendata. The actual exabition was a no-brainer self standing external project.
LINK to outcome of this
The mastodon rollout is part of the OMN project as it shares the same core technology, and it would give us relevance and real distribution of the open web if the momentum could be pushed into activism and campaigning groups.
So OMN as a core VOTV project (distribution of radical media) and the RE and mastodon installs as complementary outside projects to push the core teck into use.