CIODive: Hollywood rolls out red carpet for open source developers

The launch of the ASWF is almost like creating a GitHub for the developers behind motion pictures, but open source is nothing new to the film industry. It dates back about 20 years, Andy Maltz, managing director of the Science and Technology Council at the Academy, told CIO Dive. Film “is the only art form that has a fundamental reliance on technology,” he said. The film industry’s use of tech dates back to photochemical technologies and proceeds to today’s digital image capture.

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