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Plumi Released!

by testerplone last modified 2007-07-08 16:02

EngageMedia is very excited to announce the first beta release of Plumi, a GPL licensed video sharing Content Management System based on Plone. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.

Plumi [P(lone) Lumi(iere)] is based on the Plone Content Management System and enables a wide array of functionality including:

  • Video uploading in any format (over http)
  • Automatic server-side flash transcoding and embedded playback
  • Expanded video metadata set
  • Classifications system into country, genre and topic
  • RSS2 feeds with media enclosures (or "vodcasts") created automatically from taxonomy items - eg country, genre, member, topic, or through creating custom smart folders
  • Tagging
  • a sophisticated permissions and workflow system
  • Playback of Quicktime, Flash video, Real and Windows Media within the browser
  • Custom templates for browsing videos
  • Custom profile page for site members with personal latest videos vodcast feed
  • Open Content Licensing including Creative Commons (through their API), the GNU Free Documentation License and the ability to add your own custom licenses

Future features will include:

  • Automatic creation and seeding of BitTorrent files upon video upload
  • Large video file uploads
  • Mobile phone uploads and downloads
  • Specialised calendar
  • Transmission metadata standard
  • Donations system for contributors and online purchasing
  • Integration with gnutella and other p2p networks
  • Collaborative film production tools

These features are in addition to the already feature rich Plone system.

Plumi is the system that currently runs http://engagemedia.org - a video sharing site focussed on social and environmental issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. EngageMedia is an Australian based media/tech activist collective that develops Plumi and runs the EngageMedia.org site.

For more information about Plumi see our README or product page on Plone.org:

http://plone.org/products/plumi
and http://plumi.org

We are keen to have other people developing and using Plumi. If you are interested in getting involved or have questions about implementation please join the developers mailing list http://lists.plumi.org/listinfo/discuss
or find us in chat: irc.freenode.net #plumi

Cheers,
The EngageMedia Team
And, Andycat, Anna, Dave, Lachlan

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. testerplone. (2007, July 07). Plumi Released!. Retrieved January 08, 2009, from Plumi Demo Web site: http://demo.plumi.org/Members/testerplone/news/g8-tv. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License