Plumi

Transmission Asia-Pacific is a meeting of video activists and free software developers using online video distribution for social justice and media democracy.

Sukabumi, Indonesia, May 19-25 2008.
http://transmission.cc/txap
[Korean Translation]

Organised by EngageMedia and Ruangrupa TX-AP will bring together 50 people for five days on the edge of the Gede Pangrango National Park near Sukabumi, 120km from Jakarta. TX-AP will be a space for video makers to learn about free and open source video tools and interface with the technologists developing them. For developers it will be an opportunity to share skills and share code in order to be more effective. The meeting will allow developers to better understand the needs of video makers and for video makers to understand and contribute to the processes of development. TX-AP is a meeting of peers where everyone brings something to contribute.

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An Austrian group have recently launch a music video site based on Plumi. Screensessions.com is a platform for video artists and musicians to promote their work. The site includes a mix of video clips and live performances and aims to strengthen the multimedia presence of Austrian bands and musicians and support the local music community.

We’re pleased to announce a series of major updates to Plumi, the free software video sharing content management system. These updates include major enhancements to site speed and reduced server load, a new design and features such as tagging and call outs. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing and community site out-of-the-box. In a web landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.

Download Plumi-0.2 from plone.org.

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On January 26th a series of actions initiated by the World Social Forum took place around the world. The WSF used video to document those actions and employed Plumi to distribute them online.

To date the site has collected around 50 videos from all over the globe. The videos are compiled on the wsftv.net site.

For background on the action day see
http://wsf2008.net/node/184

A new African video-based website using Plumi software and other Plone customisations claims to be “the first Television online for Africa and its diaspora”. The Africa on TV site is still under construction but already lists many videos hosted externally on YouTube. Content focuses on cultural material, including video of well-known musicians such as Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare.

http://www.africaontv.com

A buildout is now also available for Plumi 0.1-final. A buildout puts together Zope, Plone, the third-party products and all customisations into one package. This makes it very easy for you to get everything up and running very quickly.

You can read more about buildouts here: http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout

You can find the buildout here: http://plumi.org/browser/plumi-buildout-plone2.5

The Athenaeum Centre for Libraries (Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche - CAB) recently implemented Plumi for their Berlin 5 Conference on Open Access at Padua University.

The aim of the conference was bring together the various initiatives and key players within the Open Access movement in order to:

• have an overview of the developing tools that sustain Open Access in scientific data and cultural heritage dissemination
• develop the effective strategies that can contribute to the construction and implementation of this new paradigm of the scholarly communication world.

You can see the site here: http://cabtube.cab.unipd.it/