Special Projects

Participatory Culture Foundation

Dean Jansen is part of the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit focused on reforming television and video, as it moves online. They develop a free and open source video aggregator, the Democracy Player.

Jansen does outreach and community development for PCF. He recently helped develop MakeInternetTV.org, a free and comprehensive resource for learning the basics of video creation and publishing.

Jansen is currently seeking funding to build an open source media publishing tool. This software would enable universities, libraries and individuals to make video easily available in a non-proprietary setting.

Jansen gets very excited about copyleft-related stuff - he is an active member of Harvard Free Culture, and helped plan this year's Free Culture National Conference. Nearly all of the art, prose and code Jansen creates is released with a Creative Commons license; in fact, this bio is CC-BY.