The sprint is over. Thanks to everyone who made it a success! See photos here and here

When

September 22-23, 2005 (Thursday and Friday after Plone Conference)

9:00 AM - ???

Where

11th floor conference room / rooftop terrace at Hotel Academia in Vienna, Austria

Click here for a map

Who

Anyone who is interested in improving the handling of multimedia content in Plone is welcome to join the sprint. The room holds up to 20 people, and it's first come first serve. Please email natea (at) jazkarta (dot) com if you'd like to participate.

Please see the participants list for a list of who's coming.

What

The goal of the sprint is to improve Plone's handling of multimedia content such as audio, video and photos. The topics are numerous as ever but we want to stick by the standard sprint ideals: something you can do in two days or maintain later. The general topics are:

• metadata handling
• streaming of audio/video
• podcasting and RSS 2.0
• WebDAV uploading
• Creative Commons licenses
• file system storage layers
• embedded and popup Flash media players
• importing media files from remote URLs
• caching of large media files
• Flickr integration
• caching of large media files

See the specific tasks and add your suggestions.

Products

Products that we will be working on can be found here:

• ATAudio
• ATVideo
• ATPhoto
• PloneMultimedia - the package that will bundle these products.

Please use the wiki to add your ideas.

Organizer

As part of our ongoing effort to improve Plone's multimedia capabilities and as founders of the Plone4Artists project, Jazkarta is pleased to organize the Plone multimedia sprint.

Sponsors

Netsight Internet Solutions (Bristol, UK) Thanks to Matt Hamilton from Netsight for covering the room rental and partial food costs!

If you or your organization would like to co-sponsor the Plone multimedia sprint, please contact Nate Aune (natea at jazkarta dot com). Your support is most appreciated!