Yes, for those of you who follow the Gregorian calendar, it has officially been one Gregorian year since Motamorfosis Productions publicly launched our first episode of mariposaHD.  So, happy birthday mariposaHD!

Of course, around here we strictly adhere to the Mayan calendar.  The positive energy associated with this is one of the secrets to the success of mariposaHD.

For us, it has been 12 full moons, many energetic days, and one "out of time day" since we launched our first episode of mariposaHD.  On December 7, 2005 we became the world's first original HDTV show to be distributed on the Internet (according to any calendar).

In our first Gregorian year of "netcasting", thousands of people from all over the earth downloaded episodes of mariposaHD.  From places we can easily count, viewers downloaded 92,761 episodes of mariposaHD using the BitTorrent protocol.  An additional 39,952 episodes of our iPod version were downloaded directly from Apple's iTunes music store.  Many thousands more downloaded episodes directly from bittorrent.com, the ed2k/eMule P2P network, or from USENET news feeds (which we can't count so easily).  We have also welcomed more than half a million unique visitors to the mariposaHD.tv web site this year.

From our BitTorrent tracker alone we tracked more than 84 TERABYTES of data transfers this year.  This project must stand as one of the most stunning endorsements of using Peer-to-Peer technology to transfer large data files around the world.

Many thousands of people had their first ever experience seeing High-definition video by watching mariposaHD (as HDTV is not yet broadcast in most parts of the world).  mariposaHD has also been seen in trade shows, expositions, and HDTV demonstrations in several countries.  This project is also a stunning endorsement of the Creative Commons licensing model and the idea of free and open digital exchange of artistic work.

For 365 sunrises now the mariposaHD team has brought you free HD videos and a huge online high definition photo gallery.  You've enjoyed the beauty, style, adventure, great music, and gorgeous mariposa girls that define mariposaHD.  We send little bits and bits of pleasure to your perceptions (using the latest technology out there).

But, there is more yet to come!  We are going to continue to surprise you in the coming year.  We have been traveling around the world to bring you more of the first free HDTV show for the Internet.  Remember, we're always on, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and available from anywhere in the world.  It's free and legal to download, watch, keep, copy, and share; always and forever.  Someday, maybe all HDTV will work this way ...

At this time, we would like to extend two very special Happy Birthday thank-you's to:

1. all the people who contribute to the many open-source software projects such as BitTorrent, Drupal, Gallery, Red Hat Linux, Apache, mySQL, Azureus, and BNBT.  Without you this project would not be possible!
   
   
2. the folks at Server Matrix / The Planet which is where our web server and BitTorrent tracker are hosted.  We had an absolutely perfect 100% uptime in our first year of netcasting.  Our server has never actually rebooted in a year of serving videos and several months of development work:
   
   02:49:18 up 437 days, 10:33, 1 user, load average: 2.95, 1.60, 1.30
145 processes: 135 sleeping, 7 running, 2 zombie, 1 stopped

   This could not have happened without the help of the solid team there at our hosting company.

Thanks to everyone who helped make our first year of transmissions a reality and to you for watching!

Remember, there is always someone in the universe watching mariposaHD ... always.

Enjoy it,

mike, jeff, dominic, and tamir
Motamorfosis Productions