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Video LAN

The Video LAN project is a project,
lead and composed by a team of volunteers,
that believes in the power of open source
when dealing with multimedia.

The Video LAN non-profit organisation

The Video LAN project is backed up by the VideoLAN organisation, based in France.

The Video LAN non-profit organisation has a comittee and members that are part of the Video LAN project.

The current board of VideoLAN is composed by:

• President: Jean-Baptiste Kempf,
• Treasurer: Hugo Beauzee-Luyssen,
• Secretary: Jean-Paul Saman.

Open Source Video LAN produces free software for multimedia, released under the General Public License
Contribute VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project! You can contribute time (development, documentation, packaging, tests, user support, ...), material or even money. See the contribution page for more information.
History The project started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris, in 1996. After a complete rewrite in 1998, it became Open Source, thanks to the agreement of the École Central Paris, in 2001. The project started to open up to developers outside of the École. It is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. Since 2009, the project is completly separated from École Central Paris, and is backed up by an autonomous non-profit organisation. Events We regularly attend computing events, like FOSDEM (Free-software and Open Source Developers European Meeting). We generally come back with some photos and stories.