community media

First under the Open Media Project and now under the Community Media Drupal Initiative there have been ongoing efforts to integrate Drupal with Telvue's products. Initially, this focused on Telvue's playback servers for the purposes of moving show metadata from Drupal to Telvue and moving Telvue schedule data back to Drupal. The "original" Telvue API had its limitations and developers made requests to add needed fields. Now, in addition to the Telvue playback server there is also a Cloudcast VOD server. The Cloudcast RSS feed references VOD files and metadata on Cloudcast.

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

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?

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

I know that at least some of the folks on this group of community media practitioners are also Telvue users who chose Telvue because of the lead role they took in users in smart, open solution for community media.

In a couple of weeks at the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Regional Conference (in Plymouth, MA) http://www.acm-ne.org there will be a Telvue Users Meetup on Nov. 1 from 12 - 1:30pm.

I am concerned about:

No roadmap or deadline for Internet Archive integration

2pm est. Readytalk
Present: Drew Frazier, Stefan Wray, Emily Frazier, Jason Daniels, Jay Haven

A lot of discussion focused on a funding consortium or other structure that could be put in place for shared development costs.

Large and midsize stations are much better suited to take the lead on this (MNN, SPNN, channelAustin )

Midsize and smaller stations may be able to set aside a line item for this - but then do not have the staff resources to implement/document/test. Can it work for them?

There is now a way to sign up for the
Urbana Community Media Drupal Camp July 30, 2012
http://groups.drupal.org/node/233823

Thursday, August 2 8:00am - 9:30am
Conference Schedule link

Collaborative Web Development Success for Community Media