Subject: Re: EngageMedia prototype running using ATvideo
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.multimedia
Date: 2006-04-30 19:06:30 GMT (2 years, 31 weeks and 12 minutes ago)
> Andrew from EngageMedia here. > Thought I would just let you all know we have a prototype of the > site we are building using ATvideo live now at <http:// > engagemedia.org>. We have 17 videos up as a taste of things to come > and presently have the site locked down so people can't sign up or > start publishing yet. We have a few more key development issues > like getting Creative Commons licensing working the way we want it > and some more testing to do before we make things public. You may be interested to know that we're trying to get Creative Commons licensing on the agenda for the Google Summer of Code. Both the Plone Foundation and the Creative Commons organization have been selected by Google to participate in the SoC. http://code.google.com/ soc/ This means that if we can find a student who wants to work on this, Google will fund 3 months of development effort. Other things that we'd like to do as part of the SoC: tagging, ratings, syndication, blogging. See Jonah's PLIPs (Plone improvement proposals) on these things: Creative Commons licensing: http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/136 Tagging: http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/140 > The basic idea is that it will be a place independent video > producers from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific can > publish their content about social and environmental issues and > build a communications/organisational infrastructure to collaborate > on projects. We're interested in creating a social software meets > video distribution type space. You may also be interested to know that the focus of the Big Apple sprint in July is around social software. http://plone.org/events/sprints/bigapple > If you have a look at some of the videos <http:// > www.engagemedia.org/seditious-intent> you'll notice torrents are > all included there and working. We have three different taxonomy > sections also but we've removed these for the moment. We've changed > the single video item display page as we didn't want progressive > downloads happening in there until we could get transcoding working > to a common format most users will have the codec for. Hence the > interest in flash. Daniel (aka electroteque cc'ed) is working on a flash video player interfacing with server side data and dynamically loaded clips. He is building on the work that Guenter did on PlonePlayer at the Snow Sprint. https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/PlonePlayer/ > So have a look around. We're interested in your feedback. There is > still a bunch of work to do and we'd love to hear from people who > are interested in collaborating more to build ATvideo. You can > check out our tracker here <http://engagemedia.org/projects/ > report>. There is a specific EngageMedia branch of ATvideo > available if people are interested in checking out our customisations. Cool, I'd like to check out the enhancements from your branch. I'd also be interested to work with you more closely on developing ATVideo. Wolfgang Reutz is doing a lot of modifications to ATVideo (torrent support, etc.) on the media.coop project, so perhaps we could all join forces to work on this together. Nate