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In their last board meeting, Mozilla decided to give a $100,000 grant to the non-profit Participatory Culture Foundation, the makers of the Democracy Player. PCF, like CC, aligns well with Mozilla and its manifesto. PCF has projects that are built partly on Mozilla’s technology.

Democracy Player, soon to be named Miro, is a cool desktop application that’s sort of a mashup of a video player, an RSS reader, an FTP & torrent client, and a channel guide. The experience is that video is regularly delivered to your desktop.

Democracy Player can automatically download videos from RSS-based “channels”, manage them and play them. It is based on XULRunner, and is free and open source software. Democracy Player is supported on Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux, and integrates an RSS aggregator, a BitTorrent client, and VLC media player (or Xine Media Player under GNU/Linux). Democracy Player is part of the Democracy TV Platform, which includes Broadcast Machine and Video Bomb.

[Via Mozilla]