Open Media Project

We're using CiviCRM to handle all of our membership, class registration and other CRM needs here at Denver Open Media. We're planning to integrate it with the Open Media Project, but not make it a dependency. I'm curious who else is already using it / looking to use it, and maybe we can start sharing our different configurations.

I setup Morbus's bot module to run in the #drupal-openmedia group as user omnicon, so we won't lose the fairly frequent conversations that are now happening in there. The log can be viewed at anytime by going to: http://om.civicpixel.com/bot/log/drupal-openmedia (you will need to create an account on the site first). For instructions on other features of the bot, please see the "IRC Bots" section near the end of the page at: http://drupal.org/irc.

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. KUSP (one of three local public radio stations) was well represented, as was the Santa Cruz Design Center. There were also folks from American Public Media, KQED (public media behemoth in San Francisco - radio, TV, etc.), and Peter and Kwai from Santa Cruz Community TV. (No staff from SCCTV, though.) Most of the participants were pubic media and social media activists and enthusiasts.

Our original plan was to include MNN's checkout in the Open Media Project. After evaluating their code and seeing where they were at with deploying it at MNN (still trying), we concluded that it was going to be too much work to update the code from 4.7 to 6, make the UI's easy enough for individual members to use (MNN is a staff run system), and convert dependencies on CiviCRM and a User Point budgeting based workflow into options.

Access Humboldt has developed an automation system to contribute to archive.org. It's simple in theory and should be easy enough to deploy at other centers. Currently the model works with Telvue's Princeton Server and we're looking to expand the use to other servers in this market.

Since this group has been designated for some technical discussion, I'm going to put out 2 questions for y'all that I haven't been able to get solved on irc or the forums. Probably because I just need to explain it better.

I'm working on a stream player module for general release, and one of the things that I need to do is let users select the content field that their video filenames will be input to. I am looking for the best way to write this. Here's what I need it to accomplish:

• Select field name from a drop down of all available fields

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.