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Just a shout out for help...

I'm attempting to make simple videos and am looking for a good opensource video editor that'll allow me to add transitions, do arrangements and all the other basic stuff...anyone have any good suggestions?

I've tried Jahshaka and a few others. Jahshaka looks promising but keeps crashing the moment i try to render the video....

Help anyone? 

30th April 2007

What would happen if you put artists, musicians, biologists, students, corporate leaders, activists and more varying characters in a single room?

To find out...why not go for VillageTalk?  An event that attempts to broaden horizons, promote collaboration and beyond all that...Change the World.

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The wheels have begun to turn. As part of our efforts to provide a broad-based platform for intellectual exchange and collaboration, we’re planning for a first-time event we’ve called VillageTalk .

VillageTalk is aimed at bringing passionate, youthful people from various fields into a single place and then sharing their hopes & dreams, passion & concerns so as to enrich the community, collaborate and perhaps even change the world.

We want to bring in thinkers & do-ers from any field be it Art or Music, Philsophy or Business. Anything at all so long as there’s passion to be shared.

All done in the spirit of "Let's cut the all the politicking and start talking and doing something about the things that matter, " The idea right now is to have people simply share their passion. And hopefully, showcasing it, inspire others to pursue theirs or to find others who could complement each other and pursue dreams that most practical people would say is impossible.

If you’re looking for an event that at best brings together a wide array of insights into a single evening and at worst leaves you enriched with a better perspective of the world(and a stomache full of food), this is it!

We’ve started a wiki over HERE ~

I hope you’ll share your thoughts and opinions so that we can make this impossible dream become reality.

1. Collaboration between blogging and non-blogging communities
   Despite the large and increasing number of bloggers, there is still a large number of people and organizations that don’t blog. Worse, their lack of experience about blogging has even caused some to shun away from blogging. Events like BlogOut, hopefully, can be a bridge between these 2 groups of people. The fun, relaxed setting will definitely allow people to understand each other better. (And if it’s not the setting, it’ll probably be the booze)
   
   
2. Establishment of “Bloggers Code of Conduct” guidelines
   After the Kathy Sierra incident died down, the calls for a code of conduct seems to have died down. Nevertheless, I think guidelines(not laws or policies, mind you) should be set so that people know how to react respectfully in certain cases. Already, it’s become unspoken rule that you should credit people for using their ideas or pictures and to link to their blogs if you’re referring to their articles…but with more people jumping on the Citizen Journalism bandwagon, how then do we try to ensure acceptable reporting? How should we respond when errors are reported? Certainly a lot to talk about.
   
   
3. Friendship, Tolerance & Acceptance(FTA) amongst bloggers and the community.
   In my opinion, this would be the most important thing because it would be the basis by which the guidelines would work. Another reason why I say this is because increasingly i’ve witnessed squabbles between local bloggers with each flaming the other. This is sad because the beauty of the blogosphere is the diversity of opinions – meaning that people will disagree with you. And when they do, you should accept that they have a different opinion first and then engage in discussions to understand the basis for the other party’s opinion.
   
   This is also relevant beyond the blogosphere. Companies and even our local government should start engaging the community and celebrating the diversity rather than throwing a flurry of laws and policies. It all begins by building friendships, tolerating difficult people and accepting differing opinions.