You contact metavid by sending email to metavid( )ucsc.edu ,
If you would like to chat we hang out in irc.freenode.net/metavid

The principal participants in Metavid are Aphid, Michael Dale and Professor Warren Sack. Michael and Aphid collaborated on Metavid for their MFA thesis project in the Digital Arts and New Media program at University of California Santa Cruz. Their completed thesis papers are available on this site. The project is currently affiliated with UCSC's Social Computing Lab.

Aphid and Michael are now supported by the Sunlight Foundation in their continued development of the the metavid project.

The Metavid project has received advisement and support from: Jeff Ubois and Carl Malamud

While Metavid was an MFA thesis project it was under the advisement of Professor Warren Sack, Margaret Morse, Sharon Daniel, Jim Whitehead, and Isabel Reichert.

In addition to the open source metavid code; Metavid incorporates and uses many FLOSS (Free/Libre & Open Source Software) projects.
Infrastructure:
subversion gForge, (ucsc hosted dforge)
A standard LAMP stack: (fedora core linux,php, mysql, apache)
Server Side:
mod_annodex
ffmpeg-php
ogg-theora(xiph.org)
gocr
ivtv
html_ajax for php
Server Side Applications:
word press
mediaWiki
Client side Javascript and Plugins:
vlc & annodex firefox plugin (annodex)
firefox
scriptaculous & prototype

Mark James at famfamfam.com for his creative commons icons
J of v2v
Zalman
Nelson & Gavin of Free Culture
Gerald Barnett
Ray for finding Peanut Butter & Etch-a-Sketch
EFF,
Lyle Troxell
#annodex