We are pleased to announce a new release of the video-sharing application Plumi, built on the FOSS Plone CMS. This release includes several bug-fixes, and some minor improvements to templates. It also includes improvements to the transcoding framework, to include transcoding of Flash video files.

The tarball for this version can be downloaded from our product releases page on Plone.org:
http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/0.2.3

You can get this release from SVN here:
https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Plumi/tags/plumi-0.2.3-final

For more info on how to install from SVN please view this page on our wiki:
http://plumi.org/wiki/HowToInstallPlumiSVN

All the tickets completed for this release are viewable here:
http://www.plumi.org/report/12.

This will be our last release for Plone 2.5. Development is already underway for the move to Plone 3.x. Please join our IRC channel (#plumi on irc.freenode.net), our discussion list or our announcement list for further details, or contact us for further information.

Our Plumi 0.3a alpha release will be the first buildout for Plumi on Plone 3.x. The beta release will include a migration script for Plumi sites running 0.2.3 or lower to move to Plumi 0.3b.

After this we will be looking at key new features including featuring filmmakers and video views/download statistics. Further down the track we will be exploring Firefogg integration (ogg transcoding / publishing via Firefox to Plumi), BitTorrent and many other exciting improvements.

We’re currently working on our last release of Plumi for Plone 2.5. Final testing is underway, in the meantime you can download the tarball for our release candidate 1 here. It is here in SVN.

The Plumi dev team has been busy for the last couple of months working on an exciting new Plumi site focusing on fair-use video for educational purposes. It will feature all of Plumi’s existing features, plus a blog configured for fair use guidelines and feature articles, and some other additions including enhancements of the transcoding / browser playback software. This should be a fine addition to the growing family of Plumi sites, stay tuned for more updates.

Our next version of Plumi is scheduled to be released near the end of this month (January). We aim to fix some bugs from our last release, make some very minor improvements, and then get onto migrating Plumi from Plone 2.5 to Plone 3.x.

You can check out the list of tickets for this release on our tracker here. We are sprinting on this release for the next two days – Thurs 8 Jan and Fri 9 Jan – and then will also be knuckling down again from Mon 19th Jan. Feel free to jump into IRC (#plumi on irc.freenode.net) or contact us using the form above if you’d like to get involved