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June 1, 2007. Presentation given at the LinuxTag 2007 conference in Berlin, Germany.
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Podcasting and Multimedia with Plone
LinuxTag - June 1, 2007Berlin, Germany
Nate Aunewww.plone4artists.org
Who is this guy?
• Musician - saxophonist and composer
• Hacker - Open source developer
• Consultant - Web content management (Plone)
Code for beer
Snow Sprint 2004
Play for beer
Grosetto, Italy
Agenda
• What is Plone?
• What is Plone4Artists?
• Overview of features
• Example sites
• Demo
• Questions
What is Plone?• Open source content management system
• Built on top of Python programming language
• Protected by the Plone Foundation, similar to the Apache Foundation
• Strong multilingual support, workflow, open standards, scalable
• Used by Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu Linux, Creative Commons, Open Source Development Labs, Nokia, eBay, CIA
opensource.nokia.com
developer.ebay.com
What is Plone4Artists?
• Grassroots project to build an out-of-the-box portal solution for artist communities
• Built on top of the Plone, an open source CMS
• Publish multimedia content and podcasting
• Assign Creative Commons licenses to content
• Community tools - rating, commenting, profiles
• Easy to install and pre-configured
Why is this important?• Lack of free and open source tools for
building online communities with video, audio
• Alternatives: MySpace, YouTube, Google Video= CLOSED
• Need control over server and OPEN access
• Need better tools to aggregate audio, video, podcasts, events
• Need for microsites to serve and nurture local communities
Features
• Drag-n-drop addition of content (WebDAV)
• Upload content via Flash upload tool or Java applet
• Extraction of audio/video metadata (ID3)
• Playback of audio and video in browser
• Podcasting and vodcasting (RSS 2.0)
Features cont...
• Transcoding (convert video to Flash)
• Creative Commons licensing
• Artist/band portfolios
• Community: tagging, rating, commenting, blogs
Example sites
• Community sites
• engagemedia.org
• thedailyreel.com
• bilive.it
• bostonjazz.net
• Demo multimedia products at www.plone4artists.com
Drag-n-drop via WebDAV
WebDAV mounted Plone folder Drag-n-drop to Plone
Drag-n-drop photos
Drag-n-drop photosto WebDAV folder
Plone/PIL auto-resizes photos
Drag-n-drop MP3s
Drag-n-drop MP3s to WebDAV folder MP3s appear in audio container
Metadata extracted
Song Metadata (from iTunes)
Plone4ArtistsAudioauto-extracts ID3 tags
Embedded Flash MP3 player
Music player extended
http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net
Video in Plone• Supports all major video formats:
• Quicktime
• Windows Media
• Real
• Flash
• Playback
• Native players installed in browser (vPIP.org)
• Flowplayer for FLV Flash files
Video playback
Creative Commons licenses
Community contributions
• Tagging
• Rating
• Commenting
• Blogging
05/26/2007 03:13 PMProducts — Plone4Artists
Page 1 of 2http://plone4artists.org/products
Products
All the software products created for the Plone4Artists project.
Plone4ArtistsSiteAuto-configures a Plone4Artists site by installing and configuring all the products. Thefull package includes Plone4ArtistsAudio, Plone4ArtistsVideo, Plone4ArtistsCalendar andContentLicensing, so you don't have to download those separately.
Plone4ArtistsAudioUpload a normal File to your Plone site, and Plone4ArtistsAudio will detect it as an MP3or Ogg file and "decorate" it with metadata.
ArtistSiteArtistSite provides the core content types for building an artist community website: artist,group, sitemember, recording and audio file.
Plone4ArtistsThemeCustom skin/theme for the Plone4Artists package.
Plone4ArtistsVideoUpload a video file to your Plone site and it is automatically detected as a video file, andan appropriate player is used on the view page. You can also add videos that are hostedat Google Video, YouTube, blip.tv, etc. and they will be embedded in your Plone site.
PloneFlashUploadThe PloneFlashUpload tool lets you select multiple files to be uploaded, and they are alluploaded in bulk using a Flash-based tool in the browser. The tool shows a progress barindicator for each file and an overall progress bar indicator, so you can see how muchtime is remaining.
Plone4ArtistsMember
plone4artists.org/products
Global Team of Developers
Russ Ferriday (russf)Wales
Alec Mitchell (alecm)Los Angeles
Lennart Regebro (regebro)
Paris, France
Jonathan LewisTokyo, Japan
Sasha Vinčić (sashav)Malmo, Sweden
Christof(reco)NYC
Peter Holzer(hpeter)Zurich
Nate Aune(natea)Boston
Jodok Batlogg(batlogg)
Dornbirn, Austria
Vincenzo Barone(wooda)
Naples, Italy
Rocky Burt (rocky)Canada
Plone4Artists links
• Plone4Artists
• http://plone4artists.org
• Subversion repository
• http://plone4artists.org/svn/projects
• Mailing list - send an email with ‘subscribe’ as the subject to
• IRC - irc://irc.freenode.net/plone4artists
Plone4Artists sprint
• http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists
• Intense 5 day hackathon/powwow/jamsession
• Volunteer developers meet in BostonAll are welcome! Free to participate.
• July 18-22, 2007
