Ourmedia.org, a Drupal site, turned one month old today -- and we signed up our 14,000th registered user this morning.
Dries Buytaert from drupal.org invited me a while back to post something here about Ourmedia, and I've been waiting until we'd shaken off some major bugs. Most of the uploads are working now, so we'll be moving on to the next stage of development.
Briefly: Ourmedia is an all-open source, largely voluntary effort to provide free storage and free bandwidth for any kind of digital media to anyone in the world.
That's a pretty ambitious undertaking, which we're only able to accomplish because of our partnerships with the Internet Archive and Bryght.
We already have more than 7,500 works of personal media that our members have uploaded -- some really amazing works (please contribute yours as well!). You can assign any level of copyright you wish.
Here are some of the things on our roadmap that we're just about to begin (some, but not all, require a knowledge of php):
- ratings of every media item on the site
- OTRS and Bugzilla (we could really use some help with these)
- BitTorrent support
- playlists and watchlists
- support for groups and collections
- social networking capabilities
- extending the drag-and-drop Ourmedia Publisher tool to Linux (knowledge of Python required)
- improved taxonomies/categories
Boris Mann has already posted here about our code releases:
Thanks! We couldn't have done this without the support of the Drupal community!! Hoping a few of you might have some spare time to devote a few hours here or there.
jd lasica
co-founder, Ourmedia.org
jdlasica@gmail.com
Project team: http://ourmedia.org/about/team
Advisory board: http://ourmedia.org/about/advisory-board
Mission: http://ourmedia.org/mission
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Ourmedia.org playing with Drupal
Also, any plans for a Drupal module that will make it easier for Drupal sites to integrate ourmedia.org media. Something along the lines of Flickr module. It would be amazing if each user could have an easy way to include their content from ourmedia within their blog on a Drupal site. Maybe this already exists and I just don't know.
Another nice Flickr feature is "blog it" that makes it easy to moblog or include any pictures in your blog with one click. Any blogging api's supported? Awesome work.
That is on the list
"Blog it" is on the list of things that we want to support. If you are interested in contributing to that effort, then please contact me.
Right now, each media item you upload gets a unique URL both on Ourmedia and Archive.org. So potentially you can include your content from Ourmedia in your blogs. We also plan to have full fledged RSS support - including media-RSS. So you could even have you vlog on Ourmedia itself.
There is a lot more cool stuff planned. So if you feel excited about this, please drop me a line!
-Gaurav
lead developer, Ourmedia.org
Bugzilla?
Any reason why not use the project module that is part of Drupal to track bugs and features?
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Will take a look at the project module
Will check it out. But our testers really love Bugzilla :)
-Gaurav
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