PEGspace

As well as all the goodness of the regular Meetup there will be a special extra serving of Open Media Project joy for everyone lucky enough to be in Amherst this Thursday.

Amherst Community Television is proud to host the June Western Mass Drupal Meetup Thursday June 25th, 6pm, ACTV Studios, with guest attendees from Denver Open Media.

Full info here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/23135

Many thanks to Rick Hood for his ongoing organizing efforts in making this happen.

Tomorrow we will be hosting a two day virtual over-the-shoulder installation and configuration of the OM Show module. This session will be open to all interested parties. From the webinar you will be left with an understanding of software, hardware and technical support needed to install and configure the Open Media Show module.

Contact me for connection information. Please forgive the short notice.

THIS IS A TWO PART WEBINAR

Wednesday, June 10th 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM MST
AND
Thursday, June 11th 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM MST

I am just wondering if there is any module development going on for clickable agendas (also referred to as chapters and cue points) for video out there...I (along with help from others) have working code that allows for chapter-based clicking through javascript in quicktime and flash, and it also works when pulling in a video from youtube. I would like to see this code integrated (as it's in demand by many PEG stations out there), but it's currently quite a mess and needs to be cleaned up into a functional module.

I wanted to reset this discussion on how Public Access and related media initiatives would benefit from collaboration in a wide range of areas from development, documentation, training, funding/fundraising, marketing, promotion, business, hosting, sales, and services.

As we near the completion of year-1 of the Open Media Project, I thought it might be useful to provide a brief history so-far. Part of my agreement in winning the Knight News Challenge grant that made the Open Media Project possible was to post frequent updates to the PBS Idealab Blog. Looking back, those entries provide a good timeline of year-1, and a look forward at year 2.

You can see all 10 entries at http://www.pbs.org/idealab/tony_shawcross_1/

Hi All,

The Alliance for Community Media NE (http://acm-ne.org/) is meeting in Burlington on the 21st and 22nd (Thurs and Fri next week). Please see http://groups.drupal.org/node/22117 post in the PEGspace group. I was thinking this would be a good chance for a Drupal meeting and for the folks in the ACM to get in touch with some of the folks working in community media in Vermont.

Breaking this idea out of email as this seems to be a better forum to discuss it.

"We had the last Vermont Drupal group meeting at our office in Burlington. Should we consider a Drupal meeting here while the Alliance for Community Media NE Conference is going on at Champlain College in Burlington, perhaps Thursday the 21st? It's a 15 minute walk between the College and our Office.

The following are ongoing and/or proposed projects pertaining to Drupal media. Many of these have shared needs for features, documentation, and qualified talent to do the much needed work.

Drupal products

I'm trying to talk to a Princeton B1000 broadcast server with a Linux system. It is acting coyly and doesn't want to play. The B1000 appears to be a locked Linux box.

I just installed CiviCRM 2.2 and taking it very slow. We have a small center and currently we use paper and spreadsheets to track projects, equipment and people. I'd like to try and set ourselves for working with the Open Media tools in the long run (Merci), but in the short run here are some of my plans. (Admittedly, I haven't looked too deeply into CiviCRM - so go easy on me) Does anyone have some experience on how to approach this?

The team from Civic Pixel / Deproduction / Denver Open Media will be in the Sacramento area the May 25-27th. We're going to be there to implement the Open Media System at Davis Access Media, but we'd love to do a song and dance for the SacDUG'ers while we're there if that's possible. We going to be presenting at the Open Video Conference June 18-19.

Anybody have any experience with Granicus? http://www.granicus.com/Streaming-Media-Government.aspx

Can a Drupal based system compete w/ Granicus' economies of scale? Is a Granicus system a good fit for a Public Access station in a small town of 9000 people? Any real life experience stories welcomed.

Thank you.

I've been asked to explore a Drupal pre-conference workshop for the ACM National conference in Portland. This would be a hand's on workshop that would help those interested in deploying Drupal for their access center.

I've been asked to do this because I'm building the ACM National site in Drupal and exploring the concept of sites hosted on sub domains of the ACM National site. I'd like to come up with a way to have a template/profile for the center that can be easily customized.

Darrick from Davis Access Media submitted a patch for MERCI this week. I know PEGEvent is in Drupal's CVS and there a number of Drupal modules developed for MNN that have been distributed as code dumps, but never made it into CVS. As far as I can tell, no one outside of the original developers has contributed to these projects.

I'm curious if anyone else knows of a patch from one PEG location improving a module written by another PEG location?

Anyone using SWFTools on their Drupal site?
I'd like to add the Viral 1.0 plugin to my site (quickly), but I don't have time to dig into the code this week.
All I need to do is globally add a flashvar . . . any helpers out there?
Thanks!

UPDATE: Open Media Camp planning, session proposals, conversations, rsvp, etc have all been moved to the new camp site at: http://www.openmediacamp.org

I feel like I'm posting too often to the group, but there is so much information we are trying to share. Since there is a conversation about FFmpeg on the ACM Announce list and it came up in a call with Austin, I thought I should try to get some of what we've been doing with FFmpeg posted. Most of the discussion on the ACM list has been about applications that wrap FFmpeg up with a graphic interface. That's a great introduction, but to really leverage FFmpeg the PEG community is going to have start developing some collective knowledge about FFmpeg's command line configuration options.

DOM doesn't currently use this, but we'd like to add an X-List export to the Open Media System. I've read Tightrope and Facil can export schedule information in this format.

Googling for TV Guide X-List only returns a few links before assuming I meant X-Files. It looks like TV Guide has taken a page from the ACM in developing secret standards.

Can someone who is using X-List post some details about the XML format how that information is sent to TV Guide?

A few weeks ago the Mozilla Foundation announced they are contributing $100,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to advance open video.

has anyone seen kaltura yet? a new all-in-one contributed video module.

does it have any relevance for the work we are doing?

Do you have any ideas for how work being done between the Drupal community and the PEG TV community should be handled at the 2009 Alliance for Community Media Conference in Portland, OR in July? Any ideas of how it should NOT be handled? A workshop panel, a working session, an Open Media Update? Should we focus on "how to" or "what's new"? Should the focus be more on the Open Source model? Questions, questions.......

Tony Shawcross, Suzanne St. John-Crane, and Sue Buske presented in Berkeley yesterday about DIVCA (statewide CATV franchising in California). It was truly eye-opening for me.
Tony inadvertently gave us a preview of the new CivicPixel/DOM site yesterday - looks good!!

There was a public media barcamp held in Santa Cruz this weekend, and it was very interesting. The barcamp was organized by Quiddities, who is a local web development firm.

I've posted more at the Open Media Project group.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/16814

I'm guessing most people in this group assume I'm referring Drupal's themes and blocks when I reference "Primary Theme Block". That confusion is a problem I'm trying to avoid. I thought I was going solve this by changing Primary Theme Block to Timeslots, but now I need to group Timeslots into a generic "themed" grouping. None of the options we've come up with have been clear to both developers and producers.

Currently, DOM's them blocks are...

Academic/Informational
African American
Arts and Entertainment
Faith Based
General Youth
GLBT
International Issues
Latino

Imagine there is the potential to put some resources into an "Access" theme. What sorts of considerations, ideas, caveats cross your mind? OMP has enough on the plate but John suggested I cross post to here and PEGspace.

I've cross posted the wiki about an open signage solution videohead/Matt posted to the PEGSpace group. I noticed that Daniel and Matt started posting comments at the end of the wiki. Ideally a wiki would also allow comments, but unfortunately that's not how GDO currently rolls.

Rather than continue to try to have a discussion in the wiki, I'm going to move the conversation to a discussion. The big advantage of a discussion is it alert members of new posts.

This document intends to provide a step-by-step cookbook for PEG stations to deploy Drupal and other Open Source applications.
Keep in mind that this document is deliberately SIMPLIFIED for PEG. It will not discuss every nuance of Drupal.
Initially, this document is targeted towards PEG stations who are interested in deploying Drupal as a replacement website/media streaming location (simple portal).
Ongoing, this may evolve to become a cookbook for the Open Media project for PEG stations.
This document will be updated frequently.

What Is Drupal?

Project Title: Digital Signage Project
Title of Deliverable: Functional beta release, GPL code
Work package contributing to the Deliverable: GPL code
Nature of the Deliverable: code package as Drupal module
Authors: TBD

The digital signage project attempts to create an interactive design application which will allow non-profit staff, government administrators, and community event organizers to utilize the Drupal CMS to create broadcast images for display throughout their community on public, educational, and government television stations.

I'd like for us to start compiling a comprehensive picture of the history of successes and failures in developing PEG2.0 tools to be shared among Public Access, PEG, CTC, Community Media groups. I've known of several such efforts, but was surprised to learn over the past few months that there are actually a few groups who have received recent grants similar to ours, aimed at producing open-source tools to serve and be shared by these communities. I'm not sure where all these projects are outlined, but I'm hoping we can summarize most of them here.

In just over a month, the 6 organizations who will participate in the first round of the Open Media Beta process will be selected, cooperating with Denver Open Media to implement and develop the set of Drupal Modules that will help automate workflows, engage users in more control of the station, increase your online presence, and take the next step in cooperating as a true network of locally-focused, user-driven community media centers.

This post is largely in response to http://groups.drupal.org/node/11734#comment-41136. It is partly a defense of the Pegevent module (which I wrote) and partly an analysis of underlying issues with Drupal and the PEG community. My apologies for not keeping more up to date on postings on the PEGspace group.

Denver Open Media is hosting the Western Regional Alliance for Community Media Conference, Oct 23-25, 2008 in Denver, CO. This is a great opportunity for the Open Media community to come see the progress made so-far, and to meet with our team and developers to help us move forward. We will be showcasing the Drupal Modules being developed to empower communities through Public Access TV stations and Community Technology Centers. The conference will be highlighting the new media technologies and efforts that allow access centers to operate on a streamlined, user-driven model.

I might be in a position to initiate a regional database for PEG Access stations in my neck of the woods. Given the work that is being with CiviCRM, Mapping Access, and the KDI PEG work - does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this task using Drupal tools? What questions do you think I should be asking myself at the outset to get the most out of this project? What is the most effective use of Drupal/CiviCRM in this instance? Can it be done on the cheap as a single person project? What does it sound like to you?

Jason

National and Regional Sites
ACM National
Vermont Access Network
PEGMedia.org

Local Station Sites
Community Television Network - Portland, ME
Community Media Center of Marin County, CA
Portland Community Media Center - Portland, OR
Community Media Access Partnership - Gilroy, CA
Amherst Community Television - Amherst, MA
UMass Union Video Center (UVC-TV) - Amherst, MA
Brookline Access Television - Brookline, MA
Community Television of Knoxville - Knoxville, TN

The Google Summer of Code is working on a reservation system API, one which could serve as a great central point for an equipment reservation system or a channel programming schedule. The PEG community currently developing systems like these (CCTV, DOM, MNN, and more) should definitely look at these.

Bookings API and Public Bookings
http://drupal.org/project/bookingsapi
http://drupal.org/project/publicbookings

Which one of you has a good inventory management module that can play nice with a system like this.

Much like living organisms are classified into groups (say, spiders) where many individual species (say, daddy long legs, black widow, tarantula) exist, we still have some distinguishing characteristics (eight legs, no wings) which separate it from other similar living organisms (say, bees).

I'd like to hear about what you would define as the distinguishing characteristics of a community media organization.

Hello all,

It seems the post 'installing pegevent and station on the same site' has gotten way off track and into general discussion (and yes, I contributed to that....). Let's move the rest of the discussion to this thread, so that thread can refocus on the technicalities.

This thread can be for general discussion, complaints, comments, and general developer chat.

Thanks!

Right now if you try to install both the Station Module and PEGevent module on the same site you end up with a name conflict for the CCK type Program. For Station a program is a period of programming that has similar content (e.g. the Access Hour, Blues Cruise or The War and Peace Report with Amy Goodman), so that is a bit different than program on PEGevent module.

I wonder if PEGevent would be open to a patch that would rename the Program type within PEGevent to the PEGevent Type. This idea would leave the Showing type alone. A further change would be to change the descriptions available to the user so that there would be less confusion, but an initial change would be to only make the change at the drupal content type level.

I think of this as an initial step towards bringing the Station and PEGevent modules so that they complement each other. PEGevent would be the way that programs are scheduled and Station would be how they are displayed to the public.

I recently gave a talk at a conference for folks in community cable access television about migrating their sites to content managements systems. I put lots of emphasis on Drupal. It was terrific to demo Burlington Vermont's new Drupal site (www.cctv.org) and Denver's, too (http://www.denveropenmedia.org/).
Here are the notes
http://medfield.tv/acmne_cms

I got some feedback that I thought I would share as a way to keep the KDI/pegspace beach ball up in the air.

Check out this conference call presentation by Laurie Cirivello from Grand Rapids. Its very relevant to our PEGspace efforts and I think you'll enjoy it.

http://namac.org/category.cfm?cid=101&id=8&monly=0

Tony

I'd encourage this group to keep tabs on the progress of the Knight Drupal Initiative group (http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative)

The development projects being undertaken by this group have a strong relation to the goals of the KDI, and are prime candidates for support of that initiative, but we need to stay plugged-in to the process. Deproduction has a strong (and growing) relationship with Knight and I would love to support any groups out there who want to apply for support from the KDI for Drupal development projects aimed at bolstering the PEG community.

Tony

I'd encourage this group to keep tabs on the progress of the Knight Drupal Initiative group (http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative)

The development projects being undertaken by this group have a strong relation to the goals of the KDI, and are prime candidates for support of that initiative, but we need to stay plugged-in to the process. Deproduction has a strong (and growing) relationship with Knight and I would love to support any groups out there who want to apply for support from the KDI for Drupal development projects aimed at bolstering the PEG community.

Tony

I went through the database of http://mappingaccess.com, which has about 200 stations listed with about 160 websites. I basically tried to scrape out which ones were using Drupal:

1) searching for /CHANGELOG.txt
2) searching for /modules/node/node.css
3) searching for /misc/drupal.css (for the oldies)

I came up with 10 sites that are using Drupal; some that are duh, and others that we might not have known about:

http://ctvknox.org/
http://denveropenmedia.org/
http://www.wccatv.com/
http://www.fcatv.org/
http://mnn.org/
http://ltc.org/
http://medfield.tv/

I went through the database of http://mappingaccess.com, which has about 200 stations listed with about 160 websites. I basically tried to scrape out which ones were using Drupal:

1) searching for /CHANGELOG.txt
2) searching for /modules/node/node.css
3) searching for /misc/drupal.css (for the oldies)

I came up with 10 sites that are using Drupal; some that are duh, and others that we might not have known about:

http://ctvknox.org/
http://denveropenmedia.org/
http://www.wccatv.com/
http://www.fcatv.org/
http://mnn.org/
http://ltc.org/
http://medfield.tv/

Hi Folks,

sw9 softly-nagged me into joining the group. I'd love to help out. I can code, I can document, I can write grants. Let me know how I can help.

Hi Folks,

sw9 softly-nagged me into joining the group. I'd love to help out. I can code, I can document, I can write grants. Let me know how I can help.

Thanks for the audio post Jason.

If anybody wants to get a better feel for PEGevent in action, I've got a live demo up at http://gmldev1.com/pet/

I've gotten some interest and good feedback from http://www.kua.com/

Drewish, there might be an easy way to integrate event repeat w/ PEGevent: each program airing is an event and could be scheduled using the power and wonder of event repeat I think.

Cheers.

Thanks for the audio post Jason.

If anybody wants to get a better feel for PEGevent in action, I've got a live demo up at http://gmldev1.com/pet/

I've gotten some interest and good feedback from http://www.kua.com/

Drewish, there might be an easy way to integrate event repeat w/ PEGevent: each program airing is an event and could be scheduled using the power and wonder of event repeat I think.

Cheers.

http://www.archive.org/details/PEGspace_BoF_Drupalcon2008
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This is the breakout discussion held during the Drupalcon 2008 Boston conference on March 5, 2008. This discussion tracks the progress of a number of concurrent Drupal development projects focusing on enabling PEG (public, educational and government) Access centers to utilize Drupal for their organization.

The video was not so good, so we just have the audio. Below are some notes from the conversation. Hopefully, this provides some context, history and direction for those in the Access community who are wondering what Drupal is, why it is something they should care about and also for those in the Drupal community who would like to know about a very exciting project. Please add, clarify or correct.

http://www.archive.org/details/PEGspace_BoF_Drupalcon2008
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This is the breakout discussion held during the Drupalcon 2008 Boston conference on March 5, 2008. This discussion tracks the progress of a number of concurrent Drupal development projects focusing on enabling PEG (public, educational and government) Access centers to utilize Drupal for their organization.

The video was not so good, so we just have the audio. Below are some notes from the conversation. Hopefully, this provides some context, history and direction for those in the Access community who are wondering what Drupal is, why it is something they should care about and also for those in the Drupal community who would like to know about a very exciting project. Please add, clarify or correct.