[IMC-Video] video.indymedia.org

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

Hi TJ,

Thanks for this! I think part of what's happened is there are (at least)
2 conversations going on about the future of video.indymedia.org.

One, the current site has upload disabled, and none of the current site
admins has responded to the hosting offers you mention. Occam, it would
be great if you could either A. get current video.indy back online by
following up with one of these offers, or B. if you don't have the time,
get the necessary access to someone who does.

Two, there is a conversation about the future of Indymedia CMSs in
general and video CMS in particular. So far from the conversation on
this list, I understand that we have rough agreement to both get our
current video.indy back online, while experimenting with Drupal and
Plone for a future video.indy.

We had come to agreement that we would set up test installs of these two
CMS customized for video. We're gonna play with these for a bit, then
decide which to go with for next gen video.indy.

Mark B set up a FilmForge (Drupal) sandbox: http://filmforge.indybay.mobi/

TJ, would you like to set up a Plumi (Plone) sandbox? http://plumi.net


Meanwhile, there is also an effort to create a list of all working video
feeds from IMCs, to use to create a custom Miro player (formerly
Democracy Player). Maybe anna is coordinating that?

peace
schock





TJ wrote:
> Hi imc-video,
> 
> so what is the problem video.indymedia.org ???
> 
> As I can read in the list archives, there are several offers to host
> the site - what is lacking?
> 
> I am not able to top the already offered webspace and traffic, but if
> needed, I can go and ask some local providers who are quite
> activistish linux guys and I am quite sure they will prove their
> commitment to a "free world with free software and free media" and
> will help.
> 
> Also I could offer spending a dreamhost account, actually they are
> offering 500 GB with unlimited traffic - of course, this would not
> suffice as a main download server, but would be enough as another
> backend for backups.
> 
> if man power is the problem, well, please give me a call, I may be
> able to spend one or two days a week to help this important project to
> survive. I have reasonable debian (preferred distro) admin and good
> php programming skills, (python adapting, plone learning, ruby
> lurking), also some knowledge of drupal and other OS software, enough
> to get it running and to fix it, but I will not have time to programm
> day and night.
> 
> Please contact me to ge into details.
> 
> Anyway, a status update would be nice to read.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> Tomas Juriga
> Elektronische Produktion
> Tel: +49-211-6008150
> 
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