Plumi

A new Plumi 3 buildout based on Plone 3.3.2 has just been released. We’ve also moved the buildout to the Plone Collective to make sure it’s easy for people to join and contribute to the project.
The new build out can be found here:
https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/plumi.buildout/trunk/
A description of how to use is at:
http://plumi.org/wiki/HowToInstallPlumiUsingTheBuildout#Plumi3

EngageMedia and Kunci Cultural Studies Center are pleased to announce the launch of Videochronic. This publication is the result of a collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and limitations of online video distribution.
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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 [...]

We’ve had a busy couple of days of coding. Among the things we got to:

Working Plumi buildout for Plone3.3
Indonesian translation for Plumi
Work on transcoding – splitting convertdaemon from the ATReal richfile framework
Solid progress ‘plone video suite’
Work on transcoding – splitting convertdaemon from the ATReal richfile framework
html 5 video tag support for ogg and h.264

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We’ve hit the ground in Budapest in preparation for the Plone Video Sprint. People are arriving and filling up the apartments and much discussion is brewing regarding the future of Plone and video.
The sprint agenda is starting to look a like it will have three core areas

The Future of Plone Video – looking at using [...]

If you are an activist or an NGO tech with Plone we have a couple of remaining travel and accommodation subsidies to help get you to this years Plone Conference and the Video sprint in Budapest. Contact us ASAP if you are in need.
Full details of the sprint can be found on Coactive.

The 3.0 release of Plumi will be internationalised, and include a few translations. There area a few guides on how to internationalise and translate Plone products (the good ones are linked below). I haven’t found one that sums it up from start to finish, so while I was going through the process of internationalising Plumi (which is now in the trunk of svn!), I wrote this guide.