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Welcome to the Annodex Association!

The Annodex technology is a set of open specifications and open source software that allow the creation of Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web.

To learn more about the technology, go to the http://www.annodex.net site.

The goals of the Annodex Association are to:

• plan and coordinate Annodex software development
• promote the Annodex software and grow the community
• coordinate specification development and maintain a regular release cycle
• progress standards development
• support content developers
• ascertain a legal framework around the Annodex Trademark

History

Originally, the technology has been developed mostly within the CSIRO, Australia's largest government science research organisation. Over time there was increasing development of Annodex technology from the open source community, started with debian packages by Jamie Wilkinson, python bindings by Ben Leslie, and perl bindings by Angus Lees. In parallel, the CSIRO wanted to focus its work more on closed-source research and products built on top of the technology, losing interest in the open source and open standards components of it. Thus, it made sense to separate out the open parts into its own organisation and to create an Annodex Association similar in spirit to the many other foundations that have been created around other FOSS technologies.

The Annodex Association is an Australian incorporated association. Legal Documents

News

25th January 2008: New Committee has been elected

25th January 2008: AGM on irc on #annodex - Melbourne people can join at Innovation@257, 257 Collins Street (details)

12th January 2007: AGM on irc on #annodex - Sydney people can join at James Squire Brewhouse (details)

22nd November 2006: Incorporation of "Annodex Association Inc" with NSW Fair Trading Centre

9th May 2006: New annodex.net website goes public

24th Jan 2006: Press Release: Foundation launch at linux.conf.au

14th Dec 2005: Annodex Committee elected during inaugural general meeting

14th Nov 2005: First version of constitution is available for discussion

Committee News

News from the committee can be found at http://annodex.org/wiki/Committee/Meetings/.

Membership

To become a member, simply subscribe to annodex-association@lists.annodex.net. Association membership is free. You will get access to Association resources, and the right to vote at Committee elections.

To become a member of the Advisory Panel and contribute financially or through other means, please email silvia(at)annodex.net. You get direct access to the Committee and involvement in strategic planning decisions amongst other privileges.