Photos

by Nate Aune — last modified Jan 23, 2006 08:21 PM
Many people would like to use Plone to store a collection of photos. With some additional work, Plone could be used for a more advanced digital assett management system.

ATPhoto

During the multimedia sprint, Jean-Francois and Russ started working on ATPhoto, a replacement for CMFPhoto which is based on ATImage (from ATContentTypes). It has a lot of cool features such as slideshow, Zip file import/export, Flickr import/export, and photo transformations (rotate, flip, etc.).

This product is almost ready for a 0.1 release (waiting on Plone 2.1.2) and it's expected that sprinters will continue to improve the product during the Snow Sprint.

Photocasting

While ATPhoto currently imports the photos from Flickr and creates objects in the Plone site, some people may just want to have their Flickr photos displayed on their Plone site, but not actually stored there. This site appears to have modified the CMFSin product to display Flickr photos on their Plone site via an RSS 2.0 feed from Flickr.

This functionality really falls under the more general category of coming up with a good photo/pod/vodcasting solution for Plone. In other words - providing the capability to subscribe to photo feeds which are displayed on a Plone site and publish a folder/smartfolder of photos as RSS 2.0 (with enclosures).

Media DB

Another product was recently announced by Andi Zeidler called Media DB. Andi describes this product in more detail on the trac project page and offers a video tutorial (10MB AVI) explaining how it works.

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