[Advocacy] Re: Spread Open Media dot Org Update

[Bjorn Wijers]

Hi,

> Be sure to check out the wiki - 
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Spread_Open_Media#. Right now, we are in 
> between Milestone 1 and Milestone 0. We still need a couple of things to 
> happen before we can go somewhat live with the project - mainly blog 
> posts and creating the relevant definitions for SOM.

Ok, I will continue to come up with a definition / explanation of open 
media. However, this is something I think all of us need to have a close 
look at it.

> The blog is up and running and the theme is in progress. Please, give us 
> any feedback on what can do to make it better. Of course, if you want to 
> lend a hand in the WordPress hacking, let us know!

As for the wordpress hacking:

- We need a mediaplayer plugin which allows us to embed theora video and 
vorbis audio in the site. After all we're trying to set a standard ;)
As far as I know there is no such plugin yet, but there seems to be a 
quite popular plugin for both Wordpress and Wordpress Mu called
Anarchy Media Player[1]. I've just downloaded it and have I'll have a 
look to see if I can extend it to also play vorbis and theora using the 
cortado[2] java applet. Would be nice to do this instead of creating our 
own plugin. Btw I also found this interesting page [3] discussing more 
of the FLOSS codecs and the issues surrounding it.

- It would be nice if we would have a look at making the site 
multilingual. I think we can get quite far by creating a theme for every 
language we will support and using this plugin called Gengo [4]. I 
haven't tsted this yet, so it would be cool if someone could have a 
closer look and see if this plugin is really useful.

- Extend the basic wysyswy editor with more options. Very useful if we 
want more people to start blogging including those with less experience 
with (X)HTML. I used this plugin [5], but I heard this one [6] might be 
better due to it being more extended / advanced. Needs testing though.

- We might want to add 'social bookmarking buttons' to all of our posts 
and pages. This makes it easy for visitors to bookmark / submit our 
content to sites such as digg and alike. Makes it very easy to spread 
the message. This plugin[7] seems to offer this functionality. We might 
want to add more localized bookmark sites as well such as the Dutch site 
'nujij'. Again, needs some testing and a look at the code.


LINKS
[1] http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player
[2] http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/
[3] http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/BROWSER_PLAYBACK_OF_FOSS_CODECS
[4] http://jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/gengo/
[5] 
http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2007/02/28/first-release-visualize-advanced-features/
[6] http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/tinymce-advanced/
[7] http://www.valent-blog.eu/social-bookmarking-reloaded/

grtz
BjornW