Open Source AV Standards
for the Modern World
SANE is building free, open, and transparent standards for building professional audiovisual systems. No membership fees. No paywalls. No gatekeeping.
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Free & Open
Every standard, document, and dataset is freely available under CC BY-SA 4.0. No paywalls, ever.
Community Driven
Standards are proposed and refined through an open RFC process. Anyone can contribute.
Practical First
Built by working AV professionals for real-world deployment. Theory informed by practice.
Version Controlled
Every change is tracked in Git. Audit the full history of any standard or data entry.
Latest Whitepapers
Technical deep dives and analysis by SANE editors.
The Case for Open AV Standards
A technical and economic argument for why the professional AV industry should adopt openly published, freely implementable standards.
From the Blog
Perspectives, announcements, and deep dives from the SANE community.
The Case for Open AV Standards
A technical and economic argument for why the professional AV industry should adopt openly published, freely implementable standards.
Welcome to SANE
Introducing the Society for AV Norms & Engineering - an open source alternative to proprietary AV standards bodies.
Why Open AV Standards Matter
The case for treating AV standards like open source software - and what the industry loses when they're locked away.
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