[Advocacy] Re: Spread Open Media dot Org Update

[Jon Phillips]

BTW, I think these types of discussions should be posted to the blog.
They are both interesting wrt to open media, but also a good guide for
others.

j

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 11:13 +0200, Bjorn Wijers wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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