LINUX MEDIA TO OPEN CANADIAN FACILITY
 BURBANK – 12/22/06 – Media production software developer Linux Media Arts Inc. (LMA) has formed a partnership with the Government of Manitoba, Canada, to open a new Open Source product research and development center in Winnipeg that will assist California-based global media companies wanting to penetrate Canadian and international markets.
The new Manitoba Media Centre (MMC) is being capitalized with a combined investment of $20 million from the Provincial Government of Manitoba, Canada and LMA.
According to a media release, the facility will distribute LMA’s Open Source software for the Linux Operating System; further develop and refine the software’s media management applications and tools; and carry out extensive research and development of the software’s media management and archiving tools.
The Manitoba Media Centre will also support Canada’s indigenous Misipawistik First Nation – formerly known as the Grand Rapids First Nation – in the development of their knowledge economy, and work with Red River College to explore training opportunities in the entertainment engineering field which would leverage the experience of LMA's network of professionals.
The MMC will also partner in research and development projects with the Experimental Media Centre at the University of Manitoba.
The new Centre will release technologies at key broadcasting and media events and reportedly issue a call for White Papers to be presented at the Open Source Media Technology Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the fall of 2007.
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