Open Media Project

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

This group is where users and developers of the Knight sponsored Open Media Project share information, discussions, and documentation. The Open Media Project is both a suite of modules based on the system developed by Denver Open Media and the group of 7 development partners who are contributing development, testing, documentation, training or other resources to make the Open Media modules more usable for both the PEG and Drupal communities.

The primary goal of the Open Media Project is to leverage Drupal to give local communities more control over their public access channel. The system will build on several existing modules and maintain the suite of new modules through Drupal's CVS. This is a different approach than most of the previous investments the PEG community has made in Drupal. We are also committed to developing modules that are flexible enough for a variety of uses beyond public access channels.

Current Custom Modules: Open Media Project, Open Media Show, Open Media Airing, Open Media Playback Servers, Open Media Timeslot Scheduler, Open Media Support, Internet Archive and MERCI.

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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

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DRAFT Resolution on Open Standards for the ACM Board

The following DRAFT is being presented to the meeting of the Alliance for Community Media Board of Directors in Portland on July 14, 2009. - Stefan

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;

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NOWCast SA meet the Open Media Project

charlotteanne, I took a quick look at the NOWCast SA scope of work and while what you propose is different, there are also similarities between elements of your proposal and the Open Media Project , not the least of which is that they are both CMS, Drupal-based, projects funded by the Knight Foundation. I'm in Austin, at channelAustin, 70 miles up I-35, and we're one of the 6 sites collaborating on the OM Project.

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Active 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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Problem running MERCI as staff run solution

John brought this up at our internal PCM meeting yesterday. I'm surprised it hasn't come up before.

There is an issue running MERCI as a staff run solution. Even though a staff member in a role with the Administer MERCI permission can change the author of a Reservation to be the user making the reservation, the validation functions for availability based on role and time are written to check based on the logged in user... not the the author.

MERCI wasn't designed to be a staff service solution.

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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...

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Western 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:

Western Mass Drupal Meetup

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Mounting Drupal Archive Directory on Tightrope

Tightropes allow a more flexible configuration, but setting it up is a little less than intuitive. We spent some time on the phone with Tightrope's tech support while we were in Amherst, so I thought I'd post what we learned here.

In the Main Media > Location Settings > Control Module Sets in under the I/O tab you can add the path to an SMB mount on the webserver... as long as there a user with the same username and password as your Tightrope is running as. This seems less than ideal, but there is no place to store additional authentication credentials.

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Synergy Required Fields

Here is a document that shows what we believe are the required fields for Synergy Broadcast System. We will need to map metadata created by the OM Project to these fields.

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channelAustin Open Media System Integration Diagram

I've attached a diagram of channelAustin's Open Media System integration for purposes of sharing how we are integrating Open Media tools with our Synergy Broadcast System. Diagram indicates the three environments - Linux (Ubuntu), Windows, and Mac - and shows the pathways between workstations, encoders, servers, and archive.

The red line indicates a pathway that is incomplete as of this writing.

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Open Media Toolset Mixer--Come learn about the Open Media Project!

Start: 
2009-07-16 16:00 - 19:00 America/Los_Angeles
Event type: 
User group meeting

We've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the Open Media Project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

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Importing data from Facil to CiviCRM

I work for raSANTIAGO, a consultancy in Portland, Oregon; we do a lot of work with CiviCRM. We've been working with the good folks at Portland Community Media to convert their membership data from Facil to CiviCRM.

I've put together an annotated set of MySQL queries that I'm using to import PCM's data; we're also releasing it "into the wild" for anyone to adapt and use for their own similar conversion efforts.

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Documenting Requests for Documentation/Evaluation

An important part of expanding use and adoption of the Open Media Project tools is getting reliable, useful evaluation of the work. For the past several months, we've been a bit overwhelmed and surprised by the diversity of requests for evaluation and documentation for groups with intentions to use the Open Media Project tools in environments we had not anticipated.

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Western 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.

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OM Show Configuration Webinar

Start: 
2009-06-10 (All day) UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Training (free or commercial)

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

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Clickable Agendas

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.

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channelAustin needs help with exim4, postfix, or sendmail

channelAustin is seeking help to properly set up exim4, postfix, or even sendmail on its web server for purposes of having email function properly for its Drupal installation. We have a Sun Server in-house with Ubuntu, Drupal, and CiviCRM. Our ISP is Grande Communications (but that will be changing soon (this week even)). And our mail server is handled pro bono by Primus Networks here in Austin.

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Lessons Learned During the Davis Implementation

Overall the Davis implementation went well and they are on their way to making http://dctv.davismedia.org/ a feature complete install that gives their members more functionality and control.

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Moving Genres from XML Import to Service

We've been using the Taxonomy XML to import the hierarchical taxonomy we've been using for genres in Project, Show, and Timeslot Theme. Taxonomy XML now supports taxonomy as a service.

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Public Access and related media initiatives on a regional level

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.

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