Sponsor Spotlight: Kaltura

Returning this year to support Do It With Drupal, we'd like to introduce you to Kaltura! Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With more than 38,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as downloadable packages for leading platforms - such as Drupal, WordPress, MindTouch, Moodle and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won numerous awards, such as Microsoft and TheMarker's 'Most Promising Start-up in Israel' for 2009, TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's 'Open Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media company awards, and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009.

When we asked the Kaltura team what they would have named Drupal if they'd had the choice, they were worried they didn't have a "cool" enough answer. However they apparently have a very cool office dog as their answer to our question regarding what their company mascot would be? Lego. He's at the office everyday and is a part of the team and is owned by Kaltura PM, Ainatte.

Kaltura is also a founding member of the Open Video Alliance, a group of organizations, developers, creators, and academics all striving to foster the open source online video revolution.

For more information, visit www.kaltura.com or visit Kaltura’s open source community at www.kaltura.org.

Photo includes: Shay David, Kaltura VP Business and Community Development, at the recent Open Innovations Summit, where Kaltura was selected as one of the top open source innovators of 2009.