[IMC-Video] ActivistVideo.net (beta) the activist run video sharing site

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we have been looking at the  product engage media did based on  plone.
 
my question form a neophyte  new programming language person.... how  long 
will plone be around?
 
 
I like what I see... needs a few more bells and whistlers as the   Glendale 
daily planet is a  journalism site that also  does stills  and  written stories 
but....
why is not anyone else using this package??
 
ed sharpe
 
I think one thing that does come from looking at
activistvideo.net as  a vehicle for Indymedia video is 
not just the technological aspects of this  debate but
the interpersonal, financial and organisational issues
here.  

I'm just wondering what is the reason for the  the
stalling of  the video.indymedia.org rebirth process.
Is it a lack of shared vision on  technology, or is it
for other reason not just discussed on the  imc-video
list?

Anyway I wasn't about on the imc-video ist in  the
summer but just read the archives the discussions for
using either  plone or drupal for a new site at
video.indymedia.org

Personally, I  don't see a value of encouraging people
posting video on indymedia to switch  to a non open
source video solution like ActivistVideo.net - 
But ideally  they should be able to incorporate video
coming from the indymedia network  via it's Video
feeds. 

Currently we don't really have a good solution  for
creating or maintaining well categorised Video Feeds
for organisations  like activistvideo.net. 

I still think that we are in a good position to  create
a video.indymedia.org site with open software which
achieves what  we want it to achieve. 

I wanted to do something that would be helpful to  get
us started in this direction again. 
So i've tried to break down in to  stages some of the
ideas that have been going around. 

I reckon the  stages would be something like this
listed in no particular  order.


* roughly identify who can put time into the project,
what  they are prepared to do and how much time they
have

* work on a  technology to pick up / aggregate on the
video feeds and allow searching of  them. This might be
an adaption of the drupal agregation modules, or  it
might even be easier to code this from scratch. We
have some experience  with this on the
http://ifiwatch.clearerchannel.org site. 

* A IM /  Transmission distribution of Miro video
podcast player . This would serve the  same function as
the above website in that you could search across  the
different videos available in video feeds of the
network. 

*  promote this new search and distribution tools and
help video indymedia and  video collectives get their
feeds into a suitable format, via good  documentation
adn working hand in hand. 

* work out a video uploading  and distribution
technology, where videos can be uploaded  or linked  to
from video.indymedia.org.

Current suggestions are plone /  plumi.org, drupal (
film forge project). 

Maybe a minimal set of  requirements would help get
this part of the project moving, specifically.  

>> being able to upload a file and have it available
for  download and transcoded to a streaming format
(Indytube) 
>>  creating Media RSS feeds based on the producers and
the subject matter  (keywords / categories) 

--//--

I feel that this video upload  technology doesn't
necessarily need to be the same technology as that
used  for the aggregation and network search
capabilities. 

There are other  good tools which are planned too like
and plans for a video uploader which  (like v2v meets
CCPublisher) where users fill out details and drag a
file  into a small application which uploads content to
a video indy website for  distribution.

anyway - 
I hope all is well in the world of video  activism
where you lot  are!

mick


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Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC  

See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 

We are always looking for  items to add to the museum's display and ref. 
library - please advise if you  have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave.  Phone 623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301 USA




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