Ever since first hearing about Kaltura some six to nine months ago, which, through a nifty plugin for Wordpress was able to offer user-generated video-remixing services on top of a robust video-management and conversion platform that transformed media into interactive widgetised FLVs, the anticipation for their OpenSource edition was perhaps the most anticipated product of the year, for the the only downside of the Kaltura.com edition was that all videos were hosted by Kaltura themselves…

And that’s why today is such an exciting day, because today marks the launch of KalturaCE…

Kaltura Community Edition (KalturaCE) is a free, self-hosted, community supported version of Kaltura’s Open Source Online Video Platform.

Following installation any site can gain comprehensive video and rich media functionalities including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing and sharing. It is intended to solve all your video-related needs, and allow you to easily create your own rich-media applications – all behind your own firewall and on your own servers.

Guess what we are playing with today…?