EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing

Video sharing

Video hosting services refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Other sites such as file hosting services image hosting services and social network services might support video sharing as an enhancement to their primary mission, but in general, they are not...

 website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...

 and the Pacific.

In addition to being a video sharing site EngageMedia develops Free and Open Source Software

Free and open source software

Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...

 online video distribution tools, including a content management system based on Plone

Plone

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 called Plumi

Plumi

Plumi is a free software video sharing content management system based on Plone and primarily developed by the Asia-Pacific based EngageMedia, the Greece based Unweb.me consultancy, Infinite Recursion, and others. Plumi allows users to create a video sharing site by adding it to an existing Plone...

, and conduct research into FOSS

Foss

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 video codecs, their uptake and implementation.

In June 2006 EngageMedia collaborated with CandidaTV in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 to put on Transmission at the Forte Prenestino social centre. Transmission was a global gathering of free software developers and video activists developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy.

The event in Rome was followed up by London

London

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, Re:Transmission, in October 2006, and Vx:Mission Amsterdam in January 2007.

In May 2008 a Transmission Asia-Pacific (TXAP) event was coordinated by EngageMedia and the Jakarta based Ruangrupa near Sukabumi in West Java. The five day event brought together 55 video activists and developers from 15 countries throughout the Asia-Pacific.

In addition to its Melbourne office, in December 2009, EngageMedia opened its Indonesian office in Jakarta, and continues to work with various groups, and publishing extensive range of videos from the region.