Plone & Multimedia
Nate Aune, Jazkarta
Plone Conference 2008
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tinyurl.com/plonemultimedia
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Alexa Top Sites (10/2008)
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What is podcasting?
Anyone want to throw out a definition?
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Podcast =
Downloadable media
that can be
consumed in any device
-not just on the iPod.
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Multimedia and Podcasting with Plone (10/27/06) www.jazkarta.com 866.864.4918
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Multimedia and Podcasting with Plone (10/27/06) www.jazkarta.com 866.864.4918
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Multimedia and Podcasting with Plone (10/27/06) www.jazkarta.com 866.864.4918
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“Feedburner now distributes
more than 47,000 podcasts,
which means there are
more podcasters
than radio stations.”
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“The rate at which
new podcasters
emerged on the scene has
doubled
in the last 6 months.”
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“By the end of the decade,
video content
will comprise
90% of the web traffic.”
-Jerry Yang,Yahoo
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“By 2010,
56.8 million Americans
will be using
“time-shifted digital audio
files or
podcasts.”
Source: Podcasting in the Enterprise
eWeek Oct. 2, 2006 www.jazkarta.com
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“The use of podcasting
among US consumers
is growing
at a compound
annual rate of 101%.”
Source: Diffusion Group
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How can your org
publish and aggregate
relevant multimedia?
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Solution #1:
Upload your media to
YouTube / Google Video or Blip.tv
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PROs:
No setup costs
No bandwidth costs
No hosting costs
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CONs:
No branding
No privacy
No flexibility
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Solution #2
Buy a CMS
or build your own solution
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PROs:
Your brand & identity
Secure & private
Customize & Integrate
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CONs:
Expensive
Create own content
Maintenance and support
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Solution #3
= Solution #1 + #2
Plone, an open source CMS
+ multimedia add-ons
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Plone4ArtistsAudio
demo
6 min screencast
http://plone.tv/media/1838007391/view
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Plone4ArtistsVideo
demo
6 min screencast
http://plone.tv/media/1414522219/view
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Plone and Podcasting
How to easily publish and aggregate
audio and video content
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Plone.tv statistics
• Videos: 282
• Screencasts: 32
• Audio Files: 17
• Members: 157
• Ratings: 99
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Author
Author Aggregate
Submit
Publish
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Author
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Aggregate
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Seeker
Browse Search
Comment Rate
Tag Subscribe
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Search
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Community feedback
• Tagging
• Rating
• Commenting
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Comment
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Admin
Customize Integrate
Active
logo skin LDAP RDBMS
Directory
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Customize
Complete control over design
Adheres to your brand and identity
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Integrate
flexible authentication with single-signon
sync data with external RDBMS
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Future
Auto download of content from video sharing sites
Social networking features - friends invite friends
Transcoding of video files to Flash
Point-n-click installer
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How to install
Add to your buildout.cfg:
[buildout]
...
eggs = p4a.ploneaudio
p4a.plonevideo
p4a.plonevideoembed
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[instance]
...
zcml = p4a.ploneaudio
p4a.plonevideo
p4a.plonevideoembed
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Large file support
• plone.app.blob
• still needs work - sprint topic?
• FileSystemStorage
• mature but not fully integrated
• ExternalStorage
• not used anymore
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Uploading with Zope
• PloneFlashUpload
• PloneJUpload
• ZipFileTransport
• WebDAV
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Uploading w/o Zope
• Tramline
• www.infrae.com/products/tramline
• Amazon S3 HTTP Post
• doc.s3.amazonaws.com/proposals/post.html
• Blip.tv
• wiki.blip.tv/index.php/REST_Upload_Python_Script
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groups.google.com/group/p4a-user
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More info
• Info
• www.plone4artists.org
• dev.plone4artists.org
• Discussion forum
• http://groups.google.com/group/p4a-user
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• #plone4artists on irc.freenode.net
• Subversion repository
• http://plone4artists.org/svn/projects
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Multimedia sprint
• www.openplans.org/projects/plone-conference-2008-dc/plone4artists
• Intense 2 day hackathon/powwow/jamsession
• All are welcome! Even non-coders.
• Oct. 11-12, 2008
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