Open Media Foundation

The Open Media Foundation (OMF) is an American, non-profit, charitable, multimedia organization that provides the means necessary for people to create, edit, and share their visions across various media platforms. OMF’s main goal is to put the power of media into the hands of community members who otherwise would not have the fiscal means of doing so. They provide communications services to nonprofit and public sector organizations (primarily web and video production), training in media and technology, and access to media tools and resources, primarily through Denver Open Media.

OMF's mission statement:

Open Media Foundation attempts to divert some of the power away from larger media conglomerates into the hands of the people. Many people do not have access or the necessary funding to get their voices heard by the masses; OMF wants to change this by providing equipment, space, and the knowledge necessary to create whatever the producers desire.

OMF is based in Denver, Colorado's "Santa Fe Arts District" where they manage a 20,000SqFt building that houses their 2 TV studios, classrooms, and production facilities. The Open Media Foundation building is also home to a number of smaller, independent nonprofit media entities, including The Colorado Independent online news agency, KGNU AM & FM community radio, Just Media (academy-award-nominated nonprofit film production company), The Denver Voice newspaper distributed by the homeless, and DenHac, a hackers collective which has announced plans to launch KOMF FM Radio together with OMF in 2016.

In 2001, Tony Shawcross, Executive Director of the Open Media Foundation, co-founded a non-commercial website called [denverevolution] in order to promote independent arts and non-commercial community events overlooked by the local media.

In 2003, members of the denverevolution collective began producing video as the [denverevolution] production group, borrowing gear from friends at KBDI (PBS 12), Free Speech TV, and Denver Community Television. FSTV provided them with their first editing station in an office donated by Little Voice Productions'.

In 2004 OMF significantly expanded their media and technology training services, and formed a board, incorporating as "the [denverevolution] production group."

In 2005 OMF changed their name to Deproduction and with the closure of Denver Community Television, submitted a proposal to re-launch Public-access television in Denver under an entirely new model, leveraging emerging web 2.0 technologies and business models into community media.

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