The three day camp will continue EngageMedia’s work of setting up 4 Plumi based offline video archives with a series of arts/activist partners based in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. [Read background blog post]

We have space at the camp for 2 additional volunteer Ploneistas. A key focus of the camp will be upgrading the four archives to Plumi 3.0, as well as running various workshops with local technologists to enhance their ability to customise of the platform. You’ll be working with EngageMedia and the crew from Unweb as regards the workshops. A more detailed breakdown of the event can be found in this pdf.

We can cover all food and accommodation in the lovely surrounds of central Java during the event if you are able to pay your way to Indonesia. If you are interested in attending please contact Andrew at and@engagemedia.org by March 15th.

Albany Senior High School is currently in discussions with other schools and will probably expand access to the site into other schools.

The release can be downloaded at http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/3.0-Beta2 or you can access the release via svn here. We’d love to have people testing the beta2 to assist with the progression through a Release Candidate version and on to the final production release. If you find any issues in testing please report them via the Plumi Trac.

A development version of the beta2 can be viewed at http://latest-v.plumi.org

Plumi 3.0 Beta2 includes the following fixes and feature additions

• upgraded to latest plone stable release 3.3.4
• auto-creation of thumbnail image from uploaded video
• large file uploads – integrated FTP support (previously available but not packaged with 0.2.3)
• Built in blob support to improve large file handling
• New, more stable and configurable transcoding framework (Transcode Daemon)
• html5 support
• Social networking – ability to find people based on their location or their interest in genres, activities & media formats
• Indonesian translation of Plumi and Plone interface
• Built in content translation via linguaplone
• Increased flash player size and quality
• Ability to add related items, location information and language when publishing a video
• Updated flowplayer
• Auto-notifications on retraction or rejection of content
• New cleaner design
• Fixed the content licensing UI error
• Date of release can start from 1960
• All countries are now included in taxonomy by default
• Ajaxification of commenting including profile thumbnails associated with comments

These features are in addition to the out of box new features in Plone 3.0 such as:

• content ratings
• dashboard to list your content and add rss feeds
• Inline editing
• easier collaboration and sharing of content with other site members

Plumi 3 Beta2 release has been made possible thanks to the work of EngageMedia, unweb.me, Mahiti, Andy Nicholson and Victor Rajewski.

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

The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist organisations. Access to the tools for producing and distributing video have become increasingly democratised over this period.

But how are video activists taking to using new video distribution technologies? Beyond the hype how are these tools being used on the ground? This research explores how social change video work is currently being distributed in Indonesia, from VCD to vodcasting, Creative Commons to Copyright, and considers how are activists might approach distribution in the future.

This 140 page book presents both English and Indonesian versions of the research as well as colour illustrations including a visualisation of the development of video activism and online video.

The research can be downloaded as PDF or hard copies may be ordered.

Full details at: http://engagemedia.org/videochronic

• 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.

• 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

Remember if you’re attending the Plone Sprint – we offer food for code! And we have coffee!

Here are some of the conclusions, please speak up if we’ve got anything wrong or if we’ve missed any key details.

As mentioned previously there are three strands

1. a new plone video suite based (mostly) on already existing tools
2. the future of plone/video – aimed to toward plone 4/5 and looking particularly at Tiles
3. essential improvements to already existing products such as Plumi and p4a

We’ve updated the feature set based on those discussions and dived into ‘must have’, ’should have’ and ‘nice to have’. (If you’re not already on the coactivate page, please join here.)

We want to granularise the tasks as much as possible to – any help people can offer there would be great.

We’re also looking to have leads on the various sections who can help break goals down into tasks and get tickets on the coactive tracker ticked off. We currently have 17 people signed up here and a few remote sprinters. We’re expecting 20-25 sprinters on board, possibly more. (Please spread the word and get people on board!)

At the moment Nate has volunteered to bottom line the video suite, and also the p4a enhancements and release.

We also discussed the idea of some of this possibly going into the core of Plone.

Vik is bottom-lining transcoding but is also keen to get more help on the coordination there. And will bottom line Plumi enhancements toward the 3.0 release.

We need a lead on the future of plone video; Limi has offered to help out in framing the needs at the start but will be attending multiple sprints. If you have any ideas or suggestions for a lead, please let us now.