Monster Media Sprint!

Awesome! I’ll do my very best to finish the latest UI iteration late september/begin october (which includes a lot of structural improvements), so hopefully that won’t get in your way.

The location has been set up now: we'll meet at the Mansueto offices in NYC, at 9AM on both mornings. Important note: You must pre-register, and you must have your Full Name in your profile, or you won't be admitted into the building.

Iam new to all this.

While i was searching for a file abstraction layer for D6, to get attachments and media working properly in my WYSIWYG Plugins, i was researching assets, filenode, media_mover and even started on a api some days ago myself. Then suddenly iam stumbled over media and i was so freaking suprised amazed and whatever.

I have actually build WYSIWYG Plugins using modalframe any the WYSIWYG which handles ahah upload ( yes, in the dialog you have a full-drupal-serverd form / page ), lets the user choose alignement and title and a default preset size. On close it updates the forms attachments table like filefield, update or file_attach. All this was done for inline images like it is done by many others, but with a much simpler UI.

While i created it, i recognised, how "limited" it was on the current attachment type, in my case file_attach ( fileframework ). I could not use ImageCache, ImageAPI or Image, neither filefields or whatever. And if i would have like to implement it, i would have redo the whole plugin.

And finaly, media comes into play! It gives me aynthiny i need to build such gneralized WYSIWYG Plugins..and thats what iam gonna do here.

Iam currently trying to get ImageCache ready to use an fileAPI, so we can plug in it into a StreamWrapper. After that, i will create a new plugin using media and its api for file types / embeds / forms and uploading images for the first instance.

Sorry for the long post, it was just my long road here. I hope i can paricipate the sprint remotely, iam here germany. Iam getting my head into all this Resource and StreamWrapper stuff and try to get ImageCache as our first real-time example..which would be a complex one due to presets.

After all, i will try to provide new WYSIWYG Plugins and help there with the abstraction to have all this great functionality plugged into WYSIWYG Dialogs and actions.

Cu then!

The question has come up if there might be folks interested in meeting on Sunday as well. I'm only going to be available Friday and Saturday, and I believe that Mansueto is only available on those days as well. However, it might be worth another day if there are enough interested people and a place for them to meet. Anyone want to take that on?

Also, I'm setting up a site over the next few days at http://drupalmedia.org/ as a clearinghouse for the sprint. I'm going to try to gather up all the bits and pieces of scattered Media API & PHP Stream Wrapper documentation and create some useful PDF's for reading material, and will try to have that in place by Saturday evening.

I'm excited to see everyone next week!

Thanks,
Aaron

I received a reminder email for this today however it was borken. It was a plain text email that only said:

Be reminded, f, that your signup for the following event.
Monster Media Sprint!
2009-10-23 09:00 America/New_York
SIGNUP INFORMATION

I haven't seen any other g.d.o alerts coming through like this, so I'm not sure what the dillyo is.

Following are the people that are on building guest list for this event:

• Darrel O'Pry
• Jody Hamilton
• Thomas Turnbull
• Heide Alexander
• Arthur Foelsche
• Andrew Morton
• Aaron Winborn
• Jen Simmons
• Peter Wolanin
• Forest Mars
• Eugen Mayer
• Maarten Verbaarschot
• Jonathan DeLaigle

If your name is not on the list you will not be able to attend without contacting me first. Please use the contact form for me or aaron (he will be able to reach me promptly)

As some of you may know, today is my last day with Mansueto Ventures. To mark the date with a great goodbye party for me, we'll be meeting at around 6:30 at :
M1-5 Lounge
52 Walker Street (between Church and Broadway)
http://www.m1-5.com

I hope to see sprinters there :)

Howdy- I'm at the office by the elevators. Anybody in the office to let me in?

I built out a hook for modules to load content into the media browser. I've done a mockup implementation that uses a results limiter and a pager, all functioning via ajax. Needs some cleanup and real data, but a reasonable proof of concept. Probably should be converted to a form so that we can pull cached form data in and out of Drupal rather than on passing arguments via the url stream, but as a first cut......