Community Media

This group is a space for both developers and staff working at/with Community Media Centers and Public Access TV Stations to discuss the implementation of Drupal and CiviCRM based systems. This project has a long, complicated history, but several key contributors have been contributing to this project since 2006.

The "CMDrupal" 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 distributions provide the structure for the project. The starter kits are available in Easy (ESK), Moderate (MSK), and Difficult (DSK) versions. The starter kits are Drupal distributions that include most modules, libraries, and themes needed to build a community media related site, but are not designed as one size fits all solution. Even the Community Media Starter Kit (Easy) typically requires several hours of configuration and customization to meet the needs of an organization. The DSK is

If you are interested in getting involved in CMDrupal, please read our Commitment to Contribute. Unlike an open source project like Firefox that may actually benefit from just using the browser, this project requires users to eventually become contributors at some level to be successful.

How and Why the Community Media Layer was Designed to Support BOTH Customizations AND Collaboration

Posted by kreynen on May 1, 2012 at 4:27am

Community Media Drupal Summit Presentation: Video

Posted by stefanwray on April 11, 2012 at 11:14pm

Here is a link to video of a session at the Community Media Drupal Summit http://vimeo.com/40106985

Community Media Drupal Summit: Video on Project Management

Posted by stefanwray on April 11, 2012 at 11:13pm

http://vimeo.com/40048644

Presentation by Elizabeth Raley, Project Manager and Certified ScrumMaster, CivicActions, at the Community Media Drupal Summit in Austin, Texas on March 9, 2012.

Open Media Foundation and The Open Media Project Update

Posted by choicelildice on March 30, 2012 at 8:30pm

Hello Drupalers,

My name is Joe Meersman, I was hired on at the end of last year by the Open Media Foundation (OMF) in Denver to start work on a new incarnation of the Open Media Project (OMP). As many of you know, the history of the OMP is full of successes and failures. My ultimate goal with the Drupal 7 version, is to get rid of as many of the failures as we can, and make the things that worked well work better. Easier said than done, I know, but where would we be without the evolutionary process?

Report on the Community Media Drupal Summit

Posted by stefanwray on March 22, 2012 at 8:23pm

In Austin, Texas, on March 8 and 9, 2012, Executive Directors and staff from Access Humboldt, Amherst Media, channelAustin, Easton Community Access Television, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Philadelphia Community Access Media, Regional Educational Technology Network, and St.

D7 directions: Community Media?

Posted by andyhawks on March 13, 2012 at 8:04pm

The D7 Community Media project, http://groups.drupal.org/community-media, (previously Open Media Project in D6, http://groups.drupal.org/open-media-project) is an end-to-end suite of modules for managing Public Access TV station assets relevant to producers: shows, airings, scheduling, video media assets, transcoding, playback server integration, media archiving, producer projects, physical and studio inventories, and continuing education classes.

Austin Summit: Key takeaways and Next Actions

Posted by jdcreativity on March 9, 2012 at 8:21pm

TAKE AWAYS:
The Community Media checklist is being rebundled and repackaged so that basic requirement for users, such as a Drupal.org account will be the barrier for entry into using the system. Subsequently, committing documentation is necessary for participants, done in small chucks on a per module basis - and thorough testing must be done by an end user who fits the end user story for that function - not the admin/developer. It is estimated that there are about 25 contributed modules being and that 25 people need to step up for testing.

QUESTIONS TO PONDER?:

Austin Summit: Developing shared funding for future community media development

Posted by jdcreativity on March 9, 2012 at 6:19pm

Breakout session from the Community Media Summit at channelAustin. Friday March 9, 2012.

Actions Items/ Key takeaways:

Austin Summit: Creating System for Documenting Shared Needs

Posted by dfrazier on March 9, 2012 at 5:09pm
Last updated by dfrazier on Fri, 2012-03-09 17:09

ACTIONS
-Establish a "product owner" to wrangle people together and ensure each station submits agreed upon documentation (e.g. needs assessment) at agreed upon times.
-Each station needs to establish their point person and compile their own needs assessment
-Establish listserv of PEG stakeholders
-Establish online communication platform - 1) groups.drupal.org - Community Media Group, 2) drupal.org - issues queue, 3) Google Group

Community Media Starter Kits

Posted by stefanwray on March 2, 2012 at 10:51pm
Last updated by pcoughlin on Sat, 2015-09-19 13:23

This wiki lists some of the Drupal 7 modules often used as part of Community Media installations. These are broken up into skill levels. See an overview of the Community Media Starter Kits on Drupal.org.

Where documentation already existed for a module we have written new instructions specifically for a Community Media installation which reference any existing information. All other documentation was created explicitly for this project.

The modules are listed in order of recommended install, though many other permutations are possible.

Help with building a forum

Posted by claudio1 on February 25, 2012 at 9:19pm

Hello there,

I am building a website where I need a Forum for a community and I wanted to extend the Drupal Core Forum's functionality but as I am new to drupal i am getting very confused and so Could anyone help me??? please...

Well I don't know if it is necessary as I have never used Core Forum before so I don't really now what it looks like, but I suppose it comes with the installation.

The forum would need to let people who wants to post content or reply to a thread to have a registered account ie they'd need to log in. However the content will have to be visible to the public.

School Website

Posted by claudio1 on January 16, 2012 at 12:38am

Hi,

I am a Web Design student and am designing a website for a school as for my thesis project ( I haven't started yet). I am very new to Drupal as to webdesign and I wondered if anyone can help me choose the right modules as this is my first time.

So, the website will serve as a tool to rise funding as it is a charity School so it will take Donations
on top of being a standard school website.
The website will have these functionalities:
Donation
Forum
Blog
A portal - (Learning Management System or whatever to Track students, deliver

Drupal 7 Media sprint

Posted by Dave Reid on September 6, 2011 at 8:59pm

Start:

2011-09-24 09:00 - 2011-09-28 17:00 America/Chicago

Organizers:

aaron

arthurf

becw

effulgentsia

Dave Reid

JacobSingh

robeano

Event type:

Sprint

Many of the current maintainers of the Media module are meeting for a week-long sprint in Chicago on September 24-28 (Saturday to Wednesday) to help push the module to a stable 1.0 release, work on important features for the 2.x branch, and help plan a potential Drupal 8 media initiative.

Because space is very limited, virtual participation in the #drupal-media IRC channel is highly encouraged and welcome! If you are very interested in attending in person, please contact Dave Reid.

Where is Open Media headed?

Posted by jdcreativity on August 24, 2011 at 1:51pm

There is a LOT of work being done with Open Media modules right now that is not being reflected on this list. On Drupal 7. A lot of things are in development, and I will only speak from my own experiences - but I'll post and hope others will add. Please correct any errors.

There really seem to be two aspects of the Open Media System that are being implemented concurrently.

1) Facility and Project Management through modules like MERCI and OM_Show.

Community Media Database 1.0

Posted by Rob_McCausland on March 17, 2011 at 7:37pm

This is not too off-topic, I trust. Using CiviCRM I've built an online database of U.S. community access television providers and LPFM radio stations - http://communitymediadatabase.org . The records can be searched by logged-in users, and updated by authorized provider representatives. This is a 3-month pilot project, funded by the Benton Foundation, and will be demonstrated at the NCMR conference in Boston next month. We've sent out the email below to all the access providers in the database, informing of them of the project and their ability to log in and update their records.

RFP by the ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY MEDIA, NORTHEAST REGION - website upgrade

Posted by jdcreativity on March 11, 2011 at 6:51pm

The Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region is accepting proposals to redesign, and further develop the regional web site. This will be a concept to completion production. The purpose of this RFP is to provide a fair evaluation for all candidates and to provide the candidates with the evaluation criteria against which they will be judged.

The existing http://acm-ne.org web site was originally designed and produced in 2008 on a Drupal 6 and modified slightly in 2010. The site is maintained with in-house resources.

Using YouTube for web TV

Posted by westis on February 8, 2011 at 1:32am

Howdy,

When YouTube allowed for uploading of content longer than 15 minutes we decided to migrate our web TV content to YouTube. It's cheaper (free actually) than storing the flv/h264/WebM files on your own server (or Amazon S3 as we used to) and YouTube does the conversion.

Small Steps for Small Station with OMP Install

Posted by jdcreativity on January 25, 2011 at 3:39pm

As part of the effort to refine the useful documentation for non-developers I am trying to expand kreynen's 12 step program for an OMP install. I was tempted to post this as a wiki - but it is very rough, incomplete working path at a public access TV station that just has two staff. For those who have gone through the process or my be farther along - please feel free to comment and provide any feedback. What's missing - really help us break it down. We're moving slow and steady here. - Jason

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Open Media Project documentation & Screencasts

Posted by synchlayer on January 23, 2011 at 1:30pm
Last updated by synchlayer on Sun, 2011-01-23 13:30

Spurred by discussions at Drupal Camp Western Mass, where more stations wish to join the OMP, and following on from this post: Capturing Help Requests & Questions For Better Documentation it's time to do some more documentation updating.

If you know how to do any of these things, please either make a screencast and add it to openmedia.blip.tv (I can gave you the login info) or add it to the newly organized documentation on Drupal.org, like this Open Media Airing.

Displaying files from tightrope VOD server on drupal site

Posted by aareskog on January 13, 2011 at 4:01pm

I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that displaying content directly embedded on our site from our tightrope VOD is not going to look very elegant.

With that said, I'm having problems getting it done at all. If I stream the file directly to quicktime using the URL it seems to work, but whenever I embed a windows media player on my website it gets a 404 error.

So my question is, does anyone have any decent solutions for displaying WMV files from their tightrope VOD server directly on their web site? It is one of the last hurdles we are having with our site.

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