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.
Drupal Admin Training: March 8, 2010
Announcing the next Boston area Drupal training on Monday March 8, 2010, from 9AM to 6PM, to benefit Cambridge Community Television in sunny Central Square, Cambridge, MA. Enrolling in this excellent workshop will not only provide you with a solid foundation in Drupal site building and administration, it will also 100% sponsor the excellent social media programs operated at CCTV.
This workshop will be lead by trainer Sean Effel of Drupaltherapy, so if you've enjoyed those screencasts then this is your chance to spend a day with the same level of high quality instruction in a supportive learning environment.
This intensive all-day workshop will arm new and novice level Drupal users with a schooling in Drupal basics including installation, configuration, core functions, contributed modules, themeing, and a dose of Drupal stunt driving. This is high quality Drupal instruction in a price bracket that individuals, non-profits and small businesses can afford. Here is a sample of the curriculum we will cover.
If you want a one stop kick-start to the Drupal project, this class will give you a solid overview of all the aspects and help set you on course to better understanding of Drupal. These classes book full very quickly, so register early! Deadline to register is March 1, 2010.
Registration details: Click Here!
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FFMPEG & Media Mover Qs
FFMPEG doesn’t seem to be working for me which also means Media Mover isn’t working, and apparently hasn’t since DOM were here to do the install, I’ve been sorting other issues so hadn’t looked at it until last week.
ffmpeg was actually at /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg not /usr/bin/ffmpeg but this didn’t resolve the issue; is this because this points to ffmpeg on the webserver and not on the encoder, and if so what should the link be?
Other potentially pertinent info:
I couldn’t find the vhook libraries (so that field on the ffmpeg wrapper page is empty).
Using Kaltura as a backend for PEG stations
I've been doing some work recently with the Miro Community software. It creates a community video website which can center around a geographic location or topic. It is very awesome. I have begun pulling video from PEG TV stations and got off the ground pretty quickly (see ACMNE.mirocommunity.org .)
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Draft of ACM Server Standards Released
Daniell Krawczyk let Stefan and I know this had been posted via email...
http://alliancecm.org/standards
This is more of an outline of the standard than digging into the specifics in the detail some of us have seen, but it is a step forward.
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Anyone interested in mentoring a jr. developer using MERCI Notes as a Kata Project?
The developer that we had signed up for the MERCI Notes bounty ($500) backed out. The money is still available. I've been nudging Gus to start working on smaller projects like this to both prove that the Kata model works as well as raise funds to reinvest in the Dojo and Kata... basically starting with smaller tasks and growing organically vs. trying to build the Taj Mahal of learning solutions.
Read moreSubscribing to Open Media Projects with TiVo
Scott Carrico posted this to the ACM list...
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blockquote>"Just saw this interesting article about how TiVo users will now be able to access hundreds of podcast channels, so if you have one or are thinking about adding one, here are the details:
http://hothardware.com/News/TiVo-Adds-Hundreds-Of-Free-Web-Video-Channels/
And here is a link to the TiVo content publisher page:
http://www.tivo.com/abouttivo/resourcecenter/developerpublisherdetails/i...
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Facl & CiviCRM YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
raSANTIAGO's scripts for importing data into CiviCRM from original Facil data are working very well. (See: http://groups.drupal.org/node/23535) So far, I've only had to make a few modifications to the code. Especially pleased with the scripts for pulling Facil's Class data into CiviCRM's Event tables. raSANTIAGO developed these scripts for Portland Community Media and released them as open source code available to anyone in the Public Access community involved with migrating away from Facil to an open source database environment (particularly MySQL).
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Notes from CONFERENCE CALL on ACM Server Standards
By Stefan Wray
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
10:30 AM CST
CALL PARTICIPANTS
HELEN SOULE, Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media
RICH DESIMONE, ACM Standards Working Group, Chair
JESSE LERMAN, Telvue & ACM Standards Working Group
KEVIN REYNEN, Denver Open Media, CivicPixel, & Open Media Project
STEFAN WRAY, channelAustin & Open Media Project
KATE GORMAN, UPTV & Open Media Project
CALL SUMMARY
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Expanding the Open Media Project
Deproduction, Denver Open Media, Civic Pixel, Free Speech TV, and the Alliance for Community Media are seeking partners to apply for Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) funding to extend/expand the Open Media Project, a program initially funded by the Knight Foundation and currently in beta test phase.
Read moreFull Flavored Creative Commons Module Available
Blaise Alleyne has been working on an update to the Creative Commons module as part of the Google Summer of Code program and is to the point he could use some help testing the beta. The Creative Commons module is an improvement over the Creative Commons Lite module we've been implementing as part of the Open Media Project in a number of ways.
The "full flavor" CC module is better than CC lite for a number of reasons...
Read moreScreencasts for PEG Access Drupal newbies
I am looking to help try and do a few tutorials or screencasts for administrators in PEG Access community who have Drupal sites. I am trying to cater these types of tutorials to Drupal sites that might have 1-3 contributors in addition to a site admin. I don't expect the admin to have knowledge of php. This is more just about - let's get a site up and running. These screencastst should be very basic. I also will pull from existing screencasts so I am not reinventing the wheel. Do you have any suggestions?
Upgrading modules
Protecting your site from spam
Creating content
Civic Pixel Updating MNN Code
Don't get too excited. It's only one small module Jacob Redding wrote. I figured I'm due a misleading headline after Open Flows posted a description of Access Center that claimed...
"These modules will be upgraded to work with Drupal 6 by the end of the year. The overall plan is to merge all code and functionality with Denver's Open Media Project as both systems move to Drupal 7".
Really?!? Seems like you would talk to the other developers working on the project before posting something like that.
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Reminder: Open Media Mixer Thursday, 7/16 4:00p Portland
Just a quick reminder to everyone that there's going to be a great chance to talk with the folk who made it so drupal can run a community media center! Check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/23682 for more info.
Be there or be []
-pete
Read moreDRAFT Resolution on Open Standards for the ACM Board
The following DRAFT is being presented to the Alliance for Community Media board of directors meeting on July 14, 2009.
DRAFT
Resolution on Open Standards
Alliance for Community Media Board of Directors
Whereas, some Alliance for Community Media members and affiliated organizations want to develop the means to share programming and therefore share video files;
Whereas, the ability to share video files across different platforms requires that metadata standards, file format standards, and other standards be created;
Read moreActive PEG Sharing and Distribution Initiatives
I know some of this is covered in the Wiki History of PEG 2.0 Initiatives Tony started, but I want to break this out into large, multi-station projects, smaller regional projects, and topic/genre specific projects for the panel I'm participating in at the ACM's national conference. I want the goal of this panel to be to give an overview of everything that's going on in this space, but focus on the question Lauren Glenn Davitian asked at the end of the ACM East -
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BAVC Selected to Assume Public Access Operations in San Francisco
Probably not new news to people in these groups - looks very complimentary to some of the efforts in the Drupal Public media space and Open Source/Drupal in general -
http://www.bavc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1794&Itemi...
tackling a sluggish website
I have been having a bit of a difficult time with my Drupal site lately. The site takes almost 45 seconds to load. Usually when it does load, the first message I see is "page does not exist". This is in Drupal, the favicon and the theme loads fine, but the Page does not exist.
Then I reload the page and there is a better than 50% that the proper front page will load, but maybe not.
The seems to be working after I log, the pages loading a bit faster. Maybe I am overreacting but I am just not quite sure. I'm not really sure where to go to even diagnose this problem.
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup and Open Media Project Information Session Videos now online
The videos from last week's Western Mass Drupal Meetup and Open Media Project Information Session at Amherst Community Television are now online.
Because we've yet to transition to our Drupal site, both files are streaming Windows Media Video - as soon as we transition I hope never to type those 3 words again. For the moment please follow these links and then click "Watch now" to launch the video in your external application of choice:
Read moreWestern Mass Drupal Meetup
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.
Read moreOM Show Configuration Webinar
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
