[IMC-Video] Plumi

[mark burdett]

I think this sounds right.. i certainly know a lot of python hackers,
if we want to setup a plone/plumi site we could hopefully recruit some.
I'd vote for plone since it's something i dont have much experience 
with, so i can leave all the heavy lifting to someone else ;)
I could help a little around the edges.

anyways first we need to be a little more clear about what we're 
trying to do..

--mark

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:29:15 +1000, anna wrote:
> Hi Mick,
> 
> I guess the way I see it (and I can't speak for the EngageMedia 
> collective here, just my opinion) our role in supporting a 
> video.indymedia.org site using Plumi would be to continue to maintain 
> and coordinate the software as we are now and continue to be the major 
> contributors to its development.
> 
> I don't think a video.indymedia.org built on Plumi would be viable 
> unless another collective emerged who wished to build it. Such a group 
> would have a lot of support from ourselves and the growing Plumi 
> developer community in terms of development of the Plumi code and 
> advice, but would have to be able to customise the software themselves 
> to create the site (and content development, project management).
> 
> There are potentially developers out there with the skills to make this 
> happen, but you might have to broaden the search a little wider than 
> existing IMC developers who seem to mainly use PHP rather than Python / 
> Zope / Plone.
> 
> I think it would be counter-productive for us to pitch in with more 
> support than this at this stage, as it would not be something we could 
> sustain into the future given our own workloads with EngageMedia.org / 
> Plumi and I wouldn't want to see the project fail when we withdrew our 
> initial support.
> 
> So in some ways I think Drupal is a better choice as there appears to be 
> more developers familiar with this platform in Indymedia circles. On the 
> other hand I think Plumi is a powerful platform and is ready to go now 
> with minimal customisation to create a publishing site. It could be 
> expanded in terms of aggregation also, though inbound RSS feeds have not 
> been a strong point in Plone to date there are apparently big 
> improvements here in Plone 3 and new products (modules) for Plone 3.
> 
> It really depends on what kind of site video.indymedia.org should be. I 
> think simply a big aggregation site bringing in feeds or content within 
> feeds tagged "indymedia" could be the most successful idea and if so you 
> wouldn't pick Plone to build that on unless your developers were in love 
> with it :)
> 
> I guess a wiki page speccing out what people want to build, and the 
> roles required to fill to make that happen would be a good start. Of 
> course, what can be built will depend upon the skills and resources 
> available.
> 
> Just my thoughts for now..
> Cheers
> Anna
> 
> 
> Mick Fuzz wrote:
> >> We only released the 0.1-final version of the Plumi
> >> video-sharing 
> >> package for Plone in September, so it's very early
> >> days. We're starting 
> >> to have other developers from outside the
> >> EngageMedia collective 
> >> contribute substantially to Plumi now, which is a
> >> good sign for the 
> >> health of the project.
> >>     
> >
> > Hi Anna, 
> >
> > If people from imc-video did decide to go with Plumi
> > for a Video upload site for video.indymedia.org - how
> > do you see it working?
> >
> > Do you think there are enough people with the skills
> > and time to set up and administer a plumi site along
> > the existing lines of indymedia sites - ie volunteer
> > run - and finding a suitable server.  
> >
> > To put in my 2 cents, i'd be pretty happy to see a
> > plumi video.indymedia.org upload and distribution site
> > - as you guys have done so much hard work.
> >
> > Reading back thought the archives, there is also a
> > point from Ben, who says that video.indymedia.org
> > should be the mother of all aggregation sites. I'm
> > very much into that idea and think drupal could work
> > well for this aspect of the site but there is some
> > coding to be done there. 
> >
> > Both Mark Burdett and Anna have made moves to
> > compiling a source of sites with good Media RSS feeds.
> >
> >
> > Mark is maintaining one here 
> > https://contact.indymedia.org/xml_table.php?id_medium=5
> >
> > And one is being compiled for the transmission network
> > - i don't know how best to ask people to feed into
> > that. Maybe email me and i'll put it on the wiki 
> > http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/TransmissionMiroPlayer
> >
> > I guess it would be good to pool resources on this
> > aspect. 
> >
> >
> >
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