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Plumi
Category: Communication, Media
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Plumi is a package of Plone products that enable you to create your own video sharing site. By adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation.
Current release: Plumi 0.2.2-final
Released Nov 11, 2008 — tested with Plone 2.5
This is an minor update to the second official stable release of Plumi focusing on user side enhancements. Plumi is an out-of-the-box content management system for video sharing and community creation.
Experimental releases
Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
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Code repositoryOn top of the out-of-the-box Plone functionality Plumi adds the following features
- Upload video in any format (over http)
- Custom templates for browsing videos
- Expanded video metadata set
- Classifications system into country, genre and topic using ATCountry Widget and ATVocabulary Manager
- Tagging using Vaporisation
- RSS feeds with media enclosures (or "vodcasts") created automatically based on taxonomy items - eg country, genre, member, topic or through creating custom smart folders using qRSS2Syndication
- Playback of Quicktime, Flash video, Real and Windows Media within the browser using VPIP
- Automatic server-side flash transcoding and embedded playback using Indytube
- Custom profile page for site members with personal latest videos vodcast feed
- Customised workspaces and video publishing workflow
- Content Licensing including Creative Commons licensing (through their API), the GNU Free Documentation License or you can add custom licenses or use traditional Copyright
- The addition of qPloneComments adds email notification if someone
comments on a video or responds to a comment and allows fine grained
administration of commenting. A comments portlet is also added to the
front page.
eg. http://engagemedia.org/recent_comments
http://projects.quintagroup.com/products/wiki/qPloneComments
Future releases will include features such as
- Automatic creation and seeding of BitTorrent files upon video upload
- Large video file uploads
- Mobile phone uploads and downloads
- Custom calendar
- Donations system for contributors and online purchasing
- Integration with gnutella and other p2p networks
- Collaborative film production tools
For further explanation of these features see plumi.org/wiki/Functionality
A demo of the package can be at demo.plumi.org
Experimental builds can be found here: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Plumi/trunk/
