[IMC-Video] towards a new cms for video.indymedia.org

[Mick Fuzz]

> 
> I'm familiar with drupal, so i have an itch to setup
> a drupal video site
> like the one described in the recipe, but thats kind
> of knee jerk.
> Broadcast machine does have a lot of support from
> lots of developers,
> which is very, very important the for health of a
> long term project. 

as does drupal video module- or plone 

maybe a wiki page showing the pros, cons, and features
of these systems would be helpful. 

> I know part of why we used our own cms was so that
> folks could upload
> via ftp and we could share disk space with
> archive.org. That's for
> hosting of huge files. It seems to me that most
> people don't need ftp,
> only the very large files do, so we can do what
> archive.org does and
> direct people to use their ftp client for that. No?
> 

if we went that way  - how would that content then be
incorporated into a video.indymedia.org site

mick

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