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.
Best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations
I've been having some occasional trouble where my site slows to a crawl.
Does anyone have any best practices for optimizing Drupal on lower memory configurations.
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Support Drupal & Community Media @ National Conference for Media Reform
Dear Drupalistas
My session is one of the finalists for FreePress.net's National Conference for Media Reform in Boston, but I need YOUR vote to help it make the final list.
The conference will focus on media reform, media policy and media activism, and will be an important opportunity to promote Drupal the Open Media Project, Open Source and Community Media to the many local and national attendees.
Please vote here: Open Sourcing Community Media - http://agenda.freepress.net/?i=63
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OMP and CiviCRM
I've aggregated content related to the Open Media Project and CiviCRM from several sources (GDO, openmediaproject.org, blip.tv, DOM) and compiled it in list form here. This content deals with integrating CiviCRM and MERCI, establishing CiviEvents for classes, as well importing Facil data. My reason for doing this is because I completed importing data into MERCI, and am looking to re-import user data and focus attention on the CiviCRM side of things. I started looked at all these resources independently and realized it be good if they were all on one page.
Read moreDocumenting channelAustin's MERCI Implementation
Documenting channelAustin's MERCI Implementation
NOTE: There has been ongoing debate as to the best location to post documentation (or even raw documentation as this is), and while www.openmediaproject.org was provisionally agreed upon as the best landing place for this, I feel that GDO OMP may be more accessible and definitely has a wider audience.
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Is anyone in the OMP thinking about Drupal 7?
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Is there some overlap between Curriculum Mapping and Open Media Project's management of controlled metadata vocabularies?
As a part of the Curriculum and Training Group, we have a work group exploring possible solutions for mapping Drupal production roles / job functions to competencies and to learning content. The objective may ultimately be to build a new module that will allow for the easy collection of topics and sub-topics across all curriculum and learning content, as well as a mechanism for managing and distributing such records. (Curriculum and Training Group: http://groups.drupal.org/curriculum-and-training)
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Vote for Public Media Related Sessions at SXSW
I'm trying to put my outrage at Andy Carvin's SXSW session proposal to good use. Can you imagine going to Boston to talk about Putting the Public Back in Public Media and not inviting someone from WGBH to participate? Why does Andy think it's okay to go to the city with one of the oldest access stations serving the public NPR and PBS have been ignoring all these year and not ask someone from channelAustin to participate in a discussion like that? In addition to the Open Media session Stefan and I proposed, there are several public access related sessions that you should vote for...
channelAustin Open Media Project: Giving Community Control of Television
VCAM - Shooting Noobs: Teaching Video to the Video Illiterate
BAVC - Sexy Dirty Data: Making Your Metrics Matter
BAVC - Virtually Augmented 3.0 Reality: New Tools for Filmmakers
How-to set up PBCore & Genres for OMP
After a lengthy discussion about metadata in 2009 (see here for one instance) kreynen created a new PBCore module to allow those using the Open Media Project to base their genres on PBCore – PBS’s internationally used genre list of 228 terms – which kreynen details nicely here .
Read moreOpen Media Federation?
Now that the Open Media Foundation has completed, or is about to complete, its obligations for the Knight Foundation grant to develop the Open Media Project, and now that we are at the same level on the playing field, with no one entity carrying any more weight, or responsibility, than any other, perhaps it is time that we, as co-equals, embrace a federation model, or some other egalitarian approach, for the creation of an association of developers, implementers, and end-users of the Open Media tools, with a guiding principal of openness and transparency in all communication and deliberations.
Read moreBest MERCI approach for Resources like Studios?
This is a discussion about what is the best approach in MERCI for dealing with Resources that comprise a number of additional Resources, Buckets, and/or Accessories, such as a Studio.
The Open Media Project Handbook section on MERCI defines 3 types of equipment available for checkout:
Read moreResource - Individual items that are unique. Example: Studio A vs. Studio B
Bucket - Items that are identical or so similar that users don't care which one they get. Example: DV Cameras
Accessories - Items that you don't track other than to ensure that if someone takes one or more with other equipment, it is returned. Examples: Batteries, lens cap, usb cable.
Submit PBCore 2 requests before June 30
June 30 is the deadline for submitting requests or recommendations for PBCore 2.
Here is the request form: http://pbcore.org/2.0/?page_id=304
I recommended the following as additional genre vocabularies for purposes of describing music.
Alternative
Blues
Children's
Classical
Country
Eclectic
Electronica
Experimental
Folk
International
Jazz
Latin
R&B and Soul
Rap and Hip Hop
Religious
Rock
This was based on looking at the common denominator for music genres found on these sources:
allmusic.com
amazon.com
archive.org
audiogalaxy.com
dmoz.org (which is google)
channelAustin adopting PBCore
channelAustin is adopting PBCore as a metadata standard for video genre types. PBCore is the metadata standard for the exchange of Public Broadcasting content. With this decision, channelAustin joins the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and Denver Open Media in using PBCore. channelAustin is including the PBCore Module in its Open Media Project implementation (in development) and will model its configuration after BAVC.
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Content Sharing Status in the OMP
The Open Media Foundation's last deliverable for the Open Media Project Knight Foundation grant is a shared content solution for the OMP partners. Our proposed solution differs from existing solutions in that we want to enable automated or user-driven content-sharing, as opposed to the admin-focused solutions that exist with PEGMedia or the ACM/Telvue solution... For example, we want a community member in San Fran, searching for "Cambodian Comedy" videos to see the matching files in SF, and also see a lower-tier of search results from other OMP partner sites.
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DrupalCon Birds of a Feather OMP Meetup
Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 to 5:00 PM @ DrupalCon BoF in Room 206
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/birds-feather
DrupalCon Unconference OMP Meetup
Sunday, April 18, 3:30 PM @ Drupal UnConference - Open Media Project Summit, Session, Presentation, Etc.
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/unconference
Open Media Project gatherings in San Francisco
Open Media Project gatherings in San Francisco
Mark your calendars and spread the word to other digital community media drupalistas.
Sunday, April 18, 3:30 PM @ Drupal UnConference
Open Media Project Summit, Session, Presentation, Etc.
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/unconference
Sunday, April 18, 6:00 PM @ Basil Canteen
Dinner and drinks at a great Thai restaurant 8 blocks from Moscone
http://www.basilthai.com/canteen/
RSVP to stefan/AT\iconmedia/DOT\org so I can book a space with the correct # of seats
Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 to 5:00 PM @ DrupalCon BoF in Room 206
Read moreFostering a Culture of Collaboration
It's taken longer than we hoped to get to this point, but the #drupal-openmedia IRC channel is now an active community of Drupal developers from several stations helping each other out. This conversation between emilyf and raytiley made my week...
Our omnicon bot has been having some issues with multiple sessions, but the IRC channel is being logged here...
http://www.openmediaproject.org/bot/log/drupal-openmedia
Read moreTelVue published their API library this morning
Just wanted to shoot out a line that TelVue published their API library this morning. I can't wait to play!
http://cms.telvue.com/?page_id=46
-petepo
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Tightrope Announces a Commitment to Open Source Software
Tightrope has recently announced their commitment to Open Source Software by releasing several company intiatives as open source. This significant opening of the Cablecast systems means that three of the Open Media Project's beta partners (Davis, Boston and Amherst) are steps closer to integrating Drupal with their playback system.
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