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.

Clickable Agendas

Posted by emilyf on June 9, 2009 at 5:18pm

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.

Public Access and related media initiatives on a regional level

Posted by gusaus on May 27, 2009 at 1:54am

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.

Brief History of the OMP: Year 1

Posted by deproduction on May 15, 2009 at 6:05pm

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/

Drupal Meeting during Alliance for Community Media NE Conference

Posted by joegml on May 11, 2009 at 6:38pm

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.

Drupal Meeting @ ACM-NE conference in Burlington

Posted by forestmars on May 11, 2009 at 3:44pm

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.

Does Televue (Princeton) Play Nice?

Posted by joegml on April 27, 2009 at 9:18pm

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.

Getting Started with CiviCRM

Posted by jdcreativity on April 24, 2009 at 2:53pm

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?

Open Media Coming to Sacramento

Posted by kreynen on April 21, 2009 at 7:28pm

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.

Experience with Granicus?

Posted by joegml on April 14, 2009 at 9:07pm

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.

ACM National Conference July 13 pre-conference Drupal workshop

Posted by Iowagirl on March 11, 2009 at 8:50pm

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.

Is this the first patch from one PEG location improving a module written by another PEG location?

Posted by kreynen on March 4, 2009 at 5:56pm

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?

SWFTools Add Plugin Help Requested

Posted by videohead on February 25, 2009 at 2:43pm

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!

Open Media Camp

Posted by civicpixel on February 16, 2009 at 7:33pm

Start:

2009-04-18 09:00 - 2009-04-19 18:00 America/Denver

Organizers:

johnthatcherjr

Event type:

User group meeting

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

Embracing the open, despite its flaws... why PEG should learn to love FFmpeg

Posted by kreynen on February 13, 2009 at 4:16pm

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.

TV Guide's X-List format?

Posted by kreynen on February 12, 2009 at 4:48pm

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?

Mozilla places a $100,000 bet on Ogg Theora

Posted by kreynen on February 10, 2009 at 8:54pm

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

kaltura?

Posted by jdcreativity on December 23, 2008 at 1:19pm

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

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

ideas for the 2009 ACM conference in Portland

Posted by jdcreativity on December 10, 2008 at 11:23am

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.......

NATOA Presentations in December

Posted by videohead on December 5, 2008 at 3:49pm

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!!

Radio Engage public media barcamp

Posted by videohead on November 17, 2008 at 5:08pm

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

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