Blogging Theora

Today shall be the Day of Blogging in general. In this case, it even counts as much-needed documentation. There have been a couple of requests for a Theora/Thusnelda update since I have't posted one in really quite a while-- and that immediately after reporting 'rapid progress'.

Because I work on Xiph code as part of my day-job responsibilities at Red Hat, I don't have complete control over my development priorities. Red Hat in general is usually reasonably hands-off, but around Thanksgiving of last year transfered me to working exclusively on a high-priority internal project, and thus transfered me off all Xiph projects including Thusnelda. This is temporary, but temporary may be a few more months yet. Yeah, 'Grrrrr' is right.

The good news is that Xiph had already been working on securing funding to get Tim Terriberry working on Thusnelda full time when I got pulled off the project. Mozilla's Chris Blizzard and WikiMedia's Eric Moeller were especially keen to push development forward when we met at the Open Video Alliance's meeting in New Haven last October, and money for contracts came through in February (the $100K mentioned there is for several contracts, not just completing Thusnelda).

As much of the Thusnelda work was me channelling Tim, this is an even better position to be in than we were before. It would be best if we could both work on it, but Tim is definitely a higher-powered video hacker than I am.

Now... can I successfully rope Tim into blogging?