Plumi

The Plumi dev team has been busy for the last couple of months working on an exciting new Plumi site focusing on fair-use video for educational purposes. It will feature all of Plumi’s existing features, plus a blog configured for fair use guidelines and feature articles, and some other additions including enhancements of the transcoding / browser playback software. This should be a fine addition to the growing family of Plumi sites, stay tuned for more updates.

Our next version of Plumi is scheduled to be released near the end of this month (January). We aim to fix some bugs from our last release, make some very minor improvements, and then get onto migrating Plumi from Plone 2.5 to Plone 3.x.

You can check out the list of tickets for this release on our tracker here. We are sprinting on this release for the next two days - Thurs 8 Jan and Fri 9 Jan - and then will also be knuckling down again from Mon 19th Jan. Feel free to jump into IRC (#plumi on irc.freenode.net) or contact us using the form above if you’d like to get involved

We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Plumi, 0.2.2, a free and open source video-sharing package for Plone. This release was focused on user-enhancements, small improvements that should make a big difference to users, including:

• a new animation during video upload to indicate uploading.
• transcoding messages are now only seen by site managers.
• the featured video is now a flash player on the front page - no need to go digging for your first streaming video experience!
• workflow improvements - consistent across videos, callouts, news and events
• video listings template improvement - the country metadata on each video is now listed.
• implementation of latest version of the Transmission Metadata Standard.

For a full list of changes view the changelog. You can download this version of Plumi here in the Plone repository.

We will be working on a minor bug fix release 0.2.2.1 shortly - including these fixes.

A new version of Plumi has just been released. 0.2.1 is a bug-fix update to the second official stable release of Plumi. The release fixes ordering of videos in the author page, RSS feed for news and events and adds fixes to Indytube, the transcoding application used by Plumi. For a full list of updates see the changelog. To download the release please visit the Plone repository.

A 0.2.2 release, focused on user side enhancements, will be released in early November.

We’ve also begun moves to upgrading Plumi to Plone 3. For an outline of the plan please see this email. If you are interested to help out please sign up to the discussion list.

iCommons, the international network of free culture projects initiated by the Creative Commons project has employed Plumi to document video of the 2008 iSummit conference in Sapporo, Japan. iSummit 2008 brought together hundreds of people from forty countries involved in free culture, free software and open business covering topics such as open education, open publishing, DIY video and much more.

You can view video from the event on the iCommons video site. Click here for the announcement of the site and details of its content.

Transmission Asia-Pacific is a meeting of video activists and free software developers using online video distribution for social justice and media democracy.

Sukabumi, Indonesia, May 19-25 2008.
http://transmission.cc/txap
[Korean Translation]

Organised by EngageMedia and Ruangrupa TX-AP will bring together 50 people for five days on the edge of the Gede Pangrango National Park near Sukabumi, 120km from Jakarta. TX-AP will be a space for video makers to learn about free and open source video tools and interface with the technologists developing them. For developers it will be an opportunity to share skills and share code in order to be more effective. The meeting will allow developers to better understand the needs of video makers and for video makers to understand and contribute to the processes of development. TX-AP is a meeting of peers where everyone brings something to contribute.

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An Austrian group have recently launch a music video site based on Plumi. Screensessions.com is a platform for video artists and musicians to promote their work. The site includes a mix of video clips and live performances and aims to strengthen the multimedia presence of Austrian bands and musicians and support the local music community.

We’re pleased to announce a series of major updates to Plumi, the free software video sharing content management system. These updates include major enhancements to site speed and reduced server load, a new design and features such as tagging and call outs. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing and community site out-of-the-box. In a web landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.

Download Plumi-0.2 from plone.org.

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