The Media group is the working group for the Drupal 7 File entity module, Media module and all the various modules that extend Media. The Media group is a place for all interested parties to collaborate and discuss anything related to the Drupal Media "ecosystem".
Barcelona Media Sprint and File Entity in Drupal 8 Core
Yesterday http://drupal.org/node/1597730 was added as an initiative to get the majority of the File Entity (http://drupal.org/project/file_entity) module into Drupal 8 Core.
This is a large task and there is still a lot of work needed between now and the Drupal 8 feature Freeze on December 1st.
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #10
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, May 24th.
Thursday, May 24:
New York - 4 PM
Chicago - 3 PM
Denver - 2 PM
San Francisco - 1 PM
London - 9 PM
When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- 1.1 and 2.0-unstable5 releases are out!
- Update from the DrupalCamp Twin Cities sprint: http://lullapad.com/pWGqMEzRKY
- Battle plan for improved file management in core: http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/file-management
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability testing update
- Accessibility update
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreUse Case for Galleries
In Dave's Twin Cities Drupal Camp presentation he asked for sample uses. My biggest bugaboo is the concept of galleries. There are essentially two ways that I want to be able to create a gallery: event-based groups of images and collections of themed images uploaded at different times.
Event-Based Groups of Images
Read moreDrupal Media session at DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2012
Dave will present on the current state of Media and how to get involved with the Media initiative at DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2012 in Minneapolis, MN on May 19th. If you're in the area and want to find out more about Media module, please come and attend! And then if you'd like to get more involved, come to the Media Sprint hosted by The Nerdery the following day!
Event page: http://2012.tcdrupal.org/
Session page: http://2012.tcdrupal.org/sessions/drupal-media
Drupal media IRC meeting and office hours #9
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, May 10th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- 1.1 release will hopefully be out
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability testing update
- Accessibility update
- Upcoming Media sprints at DrupalCamp Twin Cities
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreSuccessful Media Sprint in Gothenburg
We had a, in my opinion, very successful code sprint in Gothenburg last weekend and managed to make good progress on some important issues.
I have now posted a report from the sprint, you can find it at http://www.drupalmill.com/blog/tsvenson/2012/05/summary-media-sprint-apr...
Read moreDrupalCamp Twin Cities 2012 - Media Sprint
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is fairly close to me, I've signed up to present and also will be organizing a Media sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!).
Agenda
We'll be focused on sprinting for three main goals:
- Accessibility improvements to the Media module
- Cleaning up and polishing file_entity for core (and SimpleTests)
- Drupal core issues (converting file entity to an classed object, file usage system)
- 1.0 release documentation
Sprint progress wiki
We will be using http://lullapad.com/pWGqMEzRKY to track the current issues we're working on and who is working on them.
Time & Location:
We'll start sprinting from 9:30 AM until 4 PM (what time is this in my time zone?). Food and snacks will be provided by our awesome hosts, The Nerdery!
The Nerdery
9555 James Ave S
Suite #245
Bloomington MN 55431
Map: http://g.co/maps/cuf8m
Please note that The Nerdery is NOT within walking distance of the University of Minnesota where the camp itself is being held. It's considerably off-campus. Ask around at the camp to hitch a ride – organizers will try to facilitate transportation. The Nerdery has not yet perfected teleporting but stay tuned.
Want to attend?
If you are interested in attending in person, please comment below! Please try to note how you think you want to contribute during the sprint (coding? documentation? patch testing? writing simpletests?).
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #8
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, April 26th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- Issues needed for a 1.1 release
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability update
- Accessibility update
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Personal note from Dave: I'll be offline doing a client on-site this Thursday so I won't be able to attend my own initiative meeting. I'd still like the meeting to continue as expected so that new contributors and those with questions can still have an official time to come and participate.
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreSorry for being non communicating lately
Hello everyone,
As I'm sure you've noticed, I have been quite off the radar since DrupalCon. This is due to that I had to take care of quite a bit of personal stuff when I got back that prevented me from being as active as I wanted. Most of that has now been sorted and I will again have more time and energy to work on Media stuff.
Still, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone involved, especially those of you I have made promises to regarding work I was going to do. Hopefully I will be able to catch up on that and more from now on.
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #7
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, April 12th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- Issues needed for a 1.1 release
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability update
- Accessibility update
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Personal note from Dave: I'll be offline doing a client on-site this Thursday so I won't be able to attend my own initiative meeting. I'd still like the meeting to continue as expected so that new contributors and those with questions can still have an official time to come and participate.
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreMeta data on media
Hello
We are investigating media approaches for our migration to Drupal at Brighton & Hove City Council. We've run into some issues trying to combine existing meta-data on media with browsing and choosing media to insert in content. Can anyone help advising which combination of modules we need?
Read moreAny interested in sprint at DrupalCamp Twin Cities on May 20th?
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is fairly close to me, I've been thinking about organizing a Media sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!). I'd like to gauge how many people would be seriously interested in attending a full-day sprint. Interested? Comment here!
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #6
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, March 29th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- DrupalCon post-mortem:
- We released 1.0! HOORAY!
- 2.x progress
- Drupal core issue progress
- Accessibility
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Status update for usability testing
- Issue rundown
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for two hours! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreNeed for global fields (alt & title for example) for files
We now have editable file types for the File Entity 2.x. Soon also it will be possible to add new file types in a similar manner as how we work with content types in Drupal.
This will make it possible to create tailored file types such as "Logo Types" and "Cars" which can contain different fields as well as both images and videos for example.
However, we also need a mechanism to out-of-the-box handle HTML attributes such as alt and title as explained in the http://groups.drupal.org/node/219619 wiki page.
Read moreMedia Accessibility - Media Sprint 2012
Attributes (alt and title)
At this point in time, we are focusing on the alt and title attributes, with the mindset that we will be creating a framework that will work for other attributes.
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- Reasoning: WCAG 2.0 Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives and ATAG 2.0 Guideline B.2.3: Assist authors with managing alternative content for non-text content.