We had an extremely productive time at this year’s Plone video sprint. Over the 2 days we had 12 people who participated at one level or another.

A number of projects were either begun or moved forward considerably. These include

• a 0.1 alpha release of collective.piwik.flowplayer which enables stats on video plays and downloads
• a 0.1 alpha release of collective.piwik.now which allows users to see who else is on the site
• the development of collective.seed which adds torrent download support for plone content
• updating of transcoding profiles for transcode.star
• an initial assessment of Plumi 3 migration to Plone 4, including migration to the new Sunburst theme
• research in the best html5 video player support in Plone and the various browsers
• updating of the video-feature-set listing that details the desired elements for full video functionality
• initial development to expand republisher to enabling publishing of videos from a Plone site to Facebook

We hope to continue this and other work over the coming months. If you are interested in joining us please sign up at the project page.

Thanks to the Open Society Institute for sponsoring the sprint.

The Plone Video sprint wrapped up last Tuesday after four very intensive and productive days. We got a tonne done.

• We began a new plone video suite that brings together the base common features most users expect, such as embedded flash, ogg and h264 video, vodcasting, transcoding, large file handling, content licensing support, metadata extraction and much more.
• a huge amount of work was done on transcoding in particular by EngageMedia and Unweb built on top of Convert Daemon
• upgrading of the Plumi buildout to the latest stable Plone release, 3.3.1
• Translation of Plumi and Plone into Indonesian is almost complete
• We built a solid basis for ongoing collaboration, more video sprints coming hopefully!!

To continue the momentum for the Plone video suite we’ve started a new project on launchpad. Please sign up if you are interested in contributing.

You can also find us in irc.freenode.net #plonevideo.

We’re in room 100b, come on down! If you’re remote sprinting, go to irc.freenode.net and join #plonevideosprint.