The mission of the AMIA Open Source Committee is to keep AMIA members informed of the availability and application of open source software and open formats pertinent to moving image management, preservation, and access;  to provide moving image archival expertise to open source software developers and to serve as a liaison between the AMIA membership and communities of open source development;  to foster collaboration and participation with open source research and development projects and to engage software developers in open source projects that benefit the moving image archival community.