Plumi

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 0.2.3

Released Jan 19, 2009 — tested with Plone 2.5

This is the third bugfix and UI update to the Plumi 0.2 release series. Plumi is an out-of-the-box content management system for video sharing and community creation.
More about this release…

Download fileGet Plumi for all platforms (2.1 MB)
Plumi 0.2.3-final Product Bundle

Project Description

Plumi

On 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

A functioning site based on Plumi can be seen at EngageMedia.org