NYLUG Presents: Rob Spectre on Open Source Television with Boxee (June 16, 2010)
Channel: NYLUG
Date: 2013-02-19

The living room remains the final frontier of open source software. With wide adoption from home office to enterprise, from datacenter to dining rooms, consumers all over the world rely on OSS daily to run their lives. However, the third screen that has dominated eyeballs for the past sixty years has been the exclusive dominion of proprietary, monolithic black boxes. With the average American consuming eight full hours of television per day, one New York startup aims to change this paradigm of closed software in the single room in the house where most waking time is spent.
Boxee's free, open source, downloadable media center software is changing the way consumers experience media. Lead Apps Developer and Community Evangelist Rob Spectre will discuss Boxee's open source heritage, hacker culture, and open API as well as answer your questions and unload T-shirts a-plenty.

About Boxee:
Boxee is changing the way people experience home entertainment by bringing TV shows, movies, videos, and music from the Internet to the TV. Boxee's free software can be easily downloaded to any computer or embedded into TVs, Blu-Ray players, game consoles, and set top boxes. Boxee has quickly established itself as the best way to bring entertainment from different sources into one place - anything from a local collection of movies, TV shows, music, and photos, to streaming content from websites like Netflix, MLB.TV, Pandora, Last.fm, and flickr. Users can also discover new entertainment from their friends and share recommendations with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. More than a million people use Boxee to enjoy their entertainment. Learn how you can join them at www.boxee.tv.

More Information:

  * Boxee: http://www.boxee.tv/
  * Developer's Site: http://developer.boxee.tv/
  * Developer Blog: http://developer.boxee.tv/blog

About Rob Spectre:

Rob is the Lead Apps Developer and Community Evangelist for Boxee with the worst haircut in open source software. An eleven year Linux user, he serves the Boxee family as the passionate advocate for the open source community armed with over a decade of experience in OSS and a hefty supply of hairspray. In what little spare time he has, Rob likes to go to punk rock shows, speedcube and maintain his unInternet service laughotron.com.