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a step up, esp since riseup is developing crabgrass, would be a better fit
between the two ideas. I agree, crabgrass should be centered more around
media, and I have brought that up a few times.
Michaelv

> lancaster-imc at riseup.net wrote:
>> I heard from Elijah that Yossarian (unless I am disremembering the
>> correct
>> name) was/is in Crabgrass, but left and is working on the php cake cms
>> for
>> Indymedia--they of course wish he would come back (to crabgrass) and are
>> very interested in developing the indymedia/crabgrass merged model
>> (probably only in ruby/rails, but this idea of embedding could be
>> interesting), but given his cross knowledge, that is good. Hey, my
>> riseup
>> account is now giving me back imc-alt posts, yey.
>> Michaelv
>>
>>
>
> I didn't do any work on crabgrass, although I did a write-up for Elijah
> on how to encode video in ruby on rails.  The cms code on escapegoat (I
> think it's going to be called "hyperactive") is written in Rails, not
> CakePHP.  It's sort of an experiment.
>
> We were just discussing crabgrass last night at the london collective
> meeting, but I am not sure how the integration would work. The first
> thing I said to Elijah when he told me about crabgrass was "wouldn't it
> be cool if the byproduct of this political organizing tool was
> media?".   There could be an opportunity to try and plug together the
> system at http://london.escapegoat.org with crabgrass, but I need to
> focus on a few other things in my system first - doing a better job with
> photos, implementing caching so it can take more load, and messing with
> the layout.  I also need to finish the video section, adding a one-click
> Miro link and a VLC download.  If anybody wants to do me a favour, try
> the torrent download link at http://london.escapegoat.org/videos/46 and
> see if the torrent seed works OK for you (sometimes it takes a while for
> it to start).
>
> Greets,
>
> Yossarian
>
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