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

[mark burdett]

Hi, i think it's been slow due to us all being 
geographically separated, and we all have our own side 
projects going on.  an indymedia video summit to work on 
relaunching the site might be a good motivator, if we had 
time & money to do it (maybe could piggyback on some other 
event).

from what i've seen plumi looks awesome!  we just have to 
make sure we have volunteers to set it up, customize and 
maintain it.  I do have experience writing drupal modules 
and such so I'd also be down w/ a drupal solution.  here's a 
nicely done drupal video site as a sample: 
http://hub.witness.org/

--mark

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:24:07 -0800, Mick Fuzz wrote:
> 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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