Community Media

We encourage users to post events happening in the community to the community events group on https://www.drupal.org.

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.

kreynen's picture

Need a Lexiographer... looking for better terminology for Primary Theme Block?

I'm guessing most people in this group assume I'm referring Drupal's themes and blocks when I reference "Primary Theme Block". That confusion is a problem I'm trying to avoid. I thought I was going solve this by changing Primary Theme Block to Timeslots, but now I need to group Timeslots into a generic "themed" grouping. None of the options we've come up with have been clear to both developers and producers.

Currently, DOM's them blocks are...

Academic/Informational
African American
Arts and Entertainment
Faith Based
General Youth
GLBT
International Issues
Latino

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jdcreativity's picture

Leveraging Theming

Imagine there is the potential to put some resources into an "Access" theme. What sorts of considerations, ideas, caveats cross your mind? OMP has enough on the plate but John suggested I cross post to here and PEGspace.

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kreynen's picture

Digital Signage Project Discussion

I've cross posted the wiki about an open signage solution videohead/Matt posted to the PEGSpace group. I noticed that Daniel and Matt started posting comments at the end of the wiki. Ideally a wiki would also allow comments, but unfortunately that's not how GDO currently rolls.

Rather than continue to try to have a discussion in the wiki, I'm going to move the conversation to a discussion. The big advantage of a discussion is it alert members of new posts.

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PEG Drupal and General Open Source Cookbook

This document intends to provide a step-by-step cookbook for PEG stations to deploy Drupal and other Open Source applications.
Keep in mind that this document is deliberately SIMPLIFIED for PEG. It will not discuss every nuance of Drupal.
Initially, this document is targeted towards PEG stations who are interested in deploying Drupal as a replacement website/media streaming location (simple portal).
Ongoing, this may evolve to become a cookbook for the Open Media project for PEG stations.
This document will be updated frequently.

What Is Drupal?

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Digital Signage Project

Project Title: Digital Signage Project
Title of Deliverable: Functional beta release, GPL code
Work package contributing to the Deliverable: GPL code
Nature of the Deliverable: code package as Drupal module
Authors: TBD

The digital signage project attempts to create an interactive design application which will allow non-profit staff, government administrators, and community event organizers to utilize the Drupal CMS to create broadcast images for display throughout their community on public, educational, and government television stations.

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Wiki History of PEG 2.0 Initiatives

NOTE: PEG is an abbreviation for "public, educational, and government access."

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deproduction's picture

One Month til the OM Beta group is selected.

In just over a month, the 6 organizations who will participate in the first round of the Open Media Beta process will be selected, cooperating with Denver Open Media to implement and develop the set of Drupal Modules that will help automate workflows, engage users in more control of the station, increase your online presence, and take the next step in cooperating as a true network of locally-focused, user-driven community media centers.

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Pegevent and The Way Forward

This post is largely in response to http://groups.drupal.org/node/11734#comment-41136. It is partly a defense of the Pegevent module (which I wrote) and partly an analysis of underlying issues with Drupal and the PEG community. My apologies for not keeping more up to date on postings on the PEGspace group.

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deproduction's picture

Open Invitation to the Alliance for Community Media Conference. October 23-25, 2008 Denver, CO

Denver Open Media is hosting the Western Regional Alliance for Community Media Conference, Oct 23-25, 2008 in Denver, CO. This is a great opportunity for the Open Media community to come see the progress made so-far, and to meet with our team and developers to help us move forward. We will be showcasing the Drupal Modules being developed to empower communities through Public Access TV stations and Community Technology Centers. The conference will be highlighting the new media technologies and efforts that allow access centers to operate on a streamlined, user-driven model.

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jdcreativity's picture

creating a PEG specific regional database

I might be in a position to initiate a regional database for PEG Access stations in my neck of the woods. Given the work that is being with CiviCRM, Mapping Access, and the KDI PEG work - does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this task using Drupal tools? What questions do you think I should be asking myself at the outset to get the most out of this project? What is the most effective use of Drupal/CiviCRM in this instance? Can it be done on the cheap as a single person project? What does it sound like to you?

Jason

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seaneffel's picture

Bookings API

The Google Summer of Code is working on a reservation system API, one which could serve as a great central point for an equipment reservation system or a channel programming schedule. The PEG community currently developing systems like these (CCTV, DOM, MNN, and more) should definitely look at these.

Bookings API and Public Bookings
http://drupal.org/project/bookingsapi
http://drupal.org/project/publicbookings

Which one of you has a good inventory management module that can play nice with a system like this.

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jdcreativity's picture

distinguishing characteristics of a community media center

Much like living organisms are classified into groups (say, spiders) where many individual species (say, daddy long legs, black widow, tarantula) exist, we still have some distinguishing characteristics (eight legs, no wings) which separate it from other similar living organisms (say, bees).

I'd like to hear about what you would define as the distinguishing characteristics of a community media organization.

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emilyf's picture

Pegspace, pegevent, reservations, and general discussion

Hello all,

It seems the post 'installing pegevent and station on the same site' has gotten way off track and into general discussion (and yes, I contributed to that....). Let's move the rest of the discussion to this thread, so that thread can refocus on the technicalities.

This thread can be for general discussion, complaints, comments, and general developer chat.

Thanks!

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ehowland's picture

Installing PEGevent and Station on the same site

Right now if you try to install both the Station Module and PEGevent module on the same site you end up with a name conflict for the CCK type Program. For Station a program is a period of programming that has similar content (e.g. the Access Hour, Blues Cruise or The War and Peace Report with Amy Goodman), so that is a bit different than program on PEGevent module.

I wonder if PEGevent would be open to a patch that would rename the Program type within PEGevent to the PEGevent Type. This idea would leave the Showing type alone. A further change would be to change the descriptions available to the user so that there would be less confusion, but an initial change would be to only make the change at the drupal content type level.

I think of this as an initial step towards bringing the Station and PEGevent modules so that they complement each other. PEGevent would be the way that programs are scheduled and Station would be how they are displayed to the public.

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jdcreativity's picture

some feedback on Drupal and Cable Access Televison

I recently gave a talk at a conference for folks in community cable access television about migrating their sites to content managements systems. I put lots of emphasis on Drupal. It was terrific to demo Burlington Vermont's new Drupal site (www.cctv.org) and Denver's, too (http://www.denveropenmedia.org/).
Here are the notes
http://medfield.tv/acmne_cms

I got some feedback that I thought I would share as a way to keep the KDI/pegspace beach ball up in the air.

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deproduction's picture

Namac Telesalon with Laurie Cirivello

Check out this conference call presentation by Laurie Cirivello from Grand Rapids. Its very relevant to our PEGspace efforts and I think you'll enjoy it.

http://namac.org/category.cfm?cid=101&id=8&monly=0

Tony

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deproduction's picture

Pegspace and KDI

I'd encourage this group to keep tabs on the progress of the Knight Drupal Initiative group (http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative)

The development projects being undertaken by this group have a strong relation to the goals of the KDI, and are prime candidates for support of that initiative, but we need to stay plugged-in to the process. Deproduction has a strong (and growing) relationship with Knight and I would love to support any groups out there who want to apply for support from the KDI for Drupal development projects aimed at bolstering the PEG community.

Tony

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bensheldon's picture

PEG sites using Drupal

I went through the database of http://mappingaccess.com, which has about 200 stations listed with about 160 websites. I basically tried to scrape out which ones were using Drupal:

1) searching for /CHANGELOG.txt
2) searching for /modules/node/node.css
3) searching for /misc/drupal.css (for the oldies)

I came up with 10 sites that are using Drupal; some that are duh, and others that we might not have known about:

http://ctvknox.org/
http://denveropenmedia.org/
http://www.wccatv.com/
http://www.fcatv.org/
http://mnn.org/
http://ltc.org/
http://medfield.tv/

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bensheldon's picture

Here to lend a hand

Hi Folks,

sw9 softly-nagged me into joining the group. I'd love to help out. I can code, I can document, I can write grants. Let me know how I can help.

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