This Community Media group is a space for both Drupal developers and staff from Community Media Centers and Public Access TV Stations to discuss the implementation of Drupal based systems that improve the delivery of services to end users in a web based environment. Aspects of this project have been underway since 2006.
The project focuses on all major components of the operational workflow of a Community Media Center and involves Drupal module development and custom configuration in several distinct but overlapping areas:
- integration with CiviCRM for membership management and training class enrollment
- a project based system for resource reservations linked to user training certifications
- ingestion of video content and metadata integrated with local playback servers
The Community Media Starter Kits provide a good overview of the various modules developed for this project as well as others that are being employed. These modules are not designed as a one size fits all solution. They typically require custom configuration to meet the needs of each community and organization in which they deployed.
Note: This group was previously called PEGSpace.
Community Media Drupal Making Strides
The Community Media Drupal Initiative begins the week with some good news.
- channelAustin and MNN have signed an agreement on Drupal collaboration
- Amherst Media's Craig Sinclair has accepted a job at MNN
- Community Media Starter Kits are now available on Pantheon
Transcoding and audio normalization
I'm trying to setup a workflow with automatic transcoding of ingested files to SD and HD with ffmpeg + audio normalization according to EBU R128 (loudness normalization).
I'm starting this discussion for others to chip in, if you have suggetions for how to best do this or if you are looking to do the same.
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Documentation Push towards Pantheon
Have you heard....there is a lot of energy being put into pushing the Community Media Drupal kits towards a Pantheon installation.
Why?
Because community media organizations have full workloads. Our hands are dirty in real grassroots work - few of us have the budget to support the development needed for the Community Media Starter Kits. I'm not one to just advocate that one solution can solve all our web hosting problems - but this Pantheon thing looks pretty close.
How do we get there?
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How a Bill Becomes a Law… or a Feature becomes a Module included in a Starter Kit
This is one example of how some custom code became part of the contrib-cm layer of CMDrupal, the benefits of developing openly over open sourcing code after it's "done", and how this project continues to grow and change. Having a basic understanding this process is important for everyone using Drupal or CiviCRM in a community media environment. Probably not as important as understanding how a bill becomes a law, but like government… without an understanding of how it works, it is difficult to make improvements.
Utilizing new Features of Entity Reference and Feeds for Airings and VODs
We've been working with Entity Processor in Feeds for some time with channelAustin and MNN. First as a patch. Then as an unpublished branch of Feeds. With workarounds for a few remaining issues, combining this version of Feeds with the latest Entity Reference adds some really powerful functionality that we are already leveraging to pull an RSS feed of Airings from a Telvue and display it in FullCalendar.
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Beardcast Season Begins!
It's hard to believe that the idea for breaking the community media related modules up into starter kits aimed at the easy, moderate, and difficult levels was suggested just a year ago at the pre-SXSW Community Media Summit. We've come a long way in that year and reached a major milestone last month when channelAustin and MNN both moved the Difficult Kit.
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CiviCon San Francisco 2013
CiviCon is the annual conference for users, implementors, and developers of CiviCRM and offers a unique opportunity to network with the most active users and implementors in the community.
This year we have expanded CiviCon into a two day event, so there are even more opportunities to:
- find out how make the most out of your CiviCRM installation
- learn about what's new and upcoming in the project
- connect with other users and service providers
CiviCRM Config. Questions
We're starting to do some configuration in CiviCRM on our CM-site.
I'm wondering if there are any agreed upon configurations or best practices in the CM / Civi world.
In particular I am wondering:
Do you create new CONTACT TYPES in Civi?
What kind of GROUPS are you creating?
How are you using TAGS?
How do you prevent your CiviMail from landing in SPAM folders?
Thanks,
Jason
Technology Coordinator | Manhattan Neighborhood Network
The Technology Coordinator is a hands-on member of MNN's technology team. The position has responsibility for maintaining and developing MNN’s core media technology services, including MNN’s suite of open source web sites, back-end relational databases and web-based administrative applications. MNN's end-to-end media management system tracks all MNN activities from reservations to classes to playout on MNN’s digital cablecast system and digital platforms.
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DrupalCon Portland
Since DrupalCon is in Portland this year, would anyone be interested in having our own little meetup at Portland Community Media? I'd love to meet / reacquaint with you all. I'm open to other ideas such as code sprints or the like if we prefer.
Just to entice you slightly, PCM has recently gone through an HD upgrade in our studios and are planning a Master Control HD upgrade later this year. By the time DrupalCon gets here we will likely be all HD inside the building.
CM Drupal Check In
The next online meetup for this group is scheduled for next Thursday, February 7 at 2:00 PM EST. If you can be available for this, please join the conversation as we have not convened a meeting since December.
REGISTER: https://cc.readytalk.com/r/e52g3t4bblv3
Tentative agenda:
- Questions, Tech Support
- Starter Kit Updates
- Screencast Update
- San Francisco ACM Conference Plans
channelAustin Kiosk
channelAustin has successfully deployed an external kiosk where users of the community media center may deliver digital files on an external hard drive at any time of day or night.
Mounted on the outside of the building is an electric power supply, a box that has several firewire input connectors, and a mouse.
On the other side of the glass window is a computer monitor.
Read moreOnline Meetup: THURS 12/13, 2PM EST
There has been a lot of productive conversation among this group lately. We'd be remiss not to convene another online meetup before the holidays set in. Let's talk next Thursday at 2 PM and consider how the roles outlined in Stefan's document and the needs clarified by Kevin can help move this group into a productive 2013.
Click on the event url to register.
Development Summary: Modules with Issues that Need to be Resolve for a Stable Easy Starter Kit
The Creative Commons, Show - Printable Contract, Slideshow, Header, and Examples modules ALL have issues that need to be resolved.
Read moreDirections for Online Meetups
There have been some great discussions over the past months during our weekly online meetups and we should continue to talk on a regular basis. I think it is fair to say that the consensus has been that meeting every week is unnecessarily frequent. I doubt any CMCs are moving fast enough to consider and effectively contribute to a new topic every single week. The Fall survey also confirmed that Friday meetups are not ideal for most participants. I think these meetups would benefit from having sharper focus and being held monthly.
Read moreA Guide to Effective Collaboration - What Makes Community Media Drupal Work
Last updated by stefanwray on Fri, 2012-11-30 23:21
Purpose
This document is for Executive Directors and staff at community media centers (CMC) and public access stations involved in the Community Media Drupal Initiative.
The premise is that CMCs and stations around the country have the capacity to organize and work together in a distributed, networked, environment.
The purpose of this document is to establish a guide to better understand the:
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Read moreCM Drupal Online Meetup: Survey and Scheduling
This Friday at 2 PM EST, we will review the results of the surveymonkey survey and use the data to intelligently select topics and schedule future online meetups.
Prepare for Friday by reviewing the results beforehand:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=b0i4QHzLYDL414hkhL8_2fuxejjUSVTge...
Organic Groups 2.x, What's Changing and Why
This video of the Keynote Presentation Amitai Burstein gave at Drupal Camp Montreal 2012 is a great summary of the changes in the latest release of Organic Groups as well as why the changes are being made. @Amitaibu is as entertaining as he is brillant!
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