Plumi is a GPL-licensed video CMS based on Plone, initially released in 2007, that allows for video uploading, transcoding, tagging, and community engagement features. The latest version, 0.2.3, supports integration with various Plone products and focuses on fostering collaborative media networks. Future developments aim to enhance video technology and distribution capabilities while addressing current limitations like small audience reach and server costs.

1. Online video distribution
using Plumi & Plone CMS
● Plumi , a GPL video CMS,
based on Plone –
http://plumi.org
● First released on Plone.org :
18th
Sept 2007 - version 0.1
● Latest Plone 2.5.5 release :
19th
Jan 2009 - version 0.2.3
● Latest Plone 3 version is
Plumi 3 RC3 from 15th
April
2010
http://plone.org/products/plumi
● FOSS project
● Community
engagement –
sprints, conferences

2. What does it do?
● Video uploading via http
● Video transcoding to Flash, ogg - embeddable
● Video podcasting (RSS2/Atom)-Miro integration
● Tagging/Categorisation/Tag cloud
● Searching via text, tags, categorisation, as RSS
● Author profiles, commenting on videos
● Featured videos and news & events for front
page.
● Open Content Licensing
● base Plone functionality - workflows/perms

3. How does is it do this?
● Plumi as Product
Bundle - set of
interrelating Plone
products.
● Some custom built
by EM and
contributors
● Others from the
wider Plone
community.
● Collaborative work:
new forms of media
networks
● Social context of the
software's use.
– Local Archives in
Indonesia
– Video Sharing
Sites

8. Plumi video CMS
Latest Plumi version – 0.2.3
'Plumi 0.2.x' branch compromises of:
●Plone 2.5.5
●Plumi 0.2.x products
●Indytube video transcoder
●Can use a buildout dev. environment
●Serve with Apache2 & squid on Debian
GNU/Linux
Trac:
http://plumi.org/report/3

9. Plumi 0.2.x products
●ATVideo, ATEngageVideo : content types
●PlumiSkin : Plone skin product
(images/css/templates)
●Indytube : video transcoder
●
Dependent 3rd
party Plone products.
Plumi 0.2.x / Plone 2.5.5 compatible branch
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/Plumi/branches/plumi-0.2.x

10. Roadmap for Plumi 0.3
● Buildout dev. environment
● Latest Plone 3.2.x
● plone.app.blob – native ZODB blobs
● Plumi custom products, z3 style
plumi.app, plumi.skin, plumi.content, plumi.indytube
● Migration path from 0.2.x
● New Indytube architecture
http://plone.org/products/plumi/roadmap
Docs:
http://plumi.org/wiki

13. ●Buildout development environment, SVN
●ArchgenXML and ArgoUML for product
development
●Extending ATEngageVideo
●
More 3rd
party products tested with Plumi :
BiReference, SearchReferenceWidget,
qPloneBlog
●Zope3 style browser views
●Custom Skin product
Extending Plumi 0.2.x Case Study:
Critical Commons

14. Strengths of FOSS Video
Distribution Networks
● Expanding databases of “open content”
licensed material.
● Provides an open & experimental forum.
● Collaborative efforts: organised networks are
working on FOSS video technology.

15. Weaknesses of FOSS Video
Distribution Networks
●Small audiences.
●Distribution capabilities (network bandwidth,
server maintenance & costs) of individual
distributors is low.
●FOSS solution for tool-chain on (patent un-
encumbered) cross-platform video.

16. Future research for online video
tech
●Streaming versions of embedded players
●Integrated bittorrent & other p2p distro
networks
●Patent unencumbered codecs and cross-
platform browser support – <video> tag
●Firefogg plugin –video transcoding / uploading
plugin for FireFox - http://www.firefogg.org/

17. The End.
Thanks for coming :)
Contact : andy@infiniterecursion.com.au