<p>At that time, this was a risky decision for the <ahref="https://www.centralesupelec.fr/">École Centrale Paris</a>, and the VideoLAN project is very grateful.</em>
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<p>Since then, the project evolved to become a French non-profit organization, and continued developing numerous solutions around the free software multimedia world.</p>
<p>In addition to the popular <ahref="/vlc/">VLC media player</a><em>(the new name of VideoLAN Client)</em>, VideoLAN also developed <b>x264</b>, the most popular
software encoder in the world, streaming software like DVBlast, DVD and Blu-Ray stack libraries or, recently the <ahref="https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d">dav1d</a> AV1 decoder.</p>
<h2>Celebrations</h2>
<p>Several events are planned online and real-life, and they will be announced through the 2021 year.<br/>
Because of the current pandemic, the real-life celebrations for this event will be delayed,
for the second half of the year.</p>
<p>As a first step, we're currently contacting most of the major contributors to VideoLAN and VLC,
including developers, event organizers, forum helpers, documentation writers and other part of the community to
send a very special package.</p>
<p>If you are part of those, please check that we have your address!</p>