[alt-media-res] short interview with andrew from engagemedia about new plumi release and more, posted on indymedia

zoe zoe at esemplastic.net
Fri Jul 13 13:05:36 BST 2007


 Interview with Andrew of  http://www.engagemedia.org, an Australian project
to provide independent video hosting, distro, networking and more for the
Oceania region. They have just launched Plumi, a packaged up version of the
free and open source Zope/Python/Plone based software that can be used to
create your own video publishing site.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/375740.html

With video.indymedia currently dead and googlevideo, youtube etc dominating
the upload your own online video sector, what is the realistic future of
truly independent video online?

Well, there are many possible directions, and the newly released free, open
source Plumi package ( http://plumi.org) aims to offer some more.

Till now, the only other effective free and open source online video
publishing platform available online has been the Broadcast Machine, made by
(US-based) Participatory Culture Foundation. Like Engagemedia, PCF are
participants in the Transmission network of online social justice video
projects.

For a year now Transmission ( http://www.transmission.cc) participants have
been working together to develop the tools and social networks to link
projects together, stop reinventing wheels, expand our options and easily
enable users to upload and download the video we want, when we want....
without having to give our work to the new corporate landlords of the online
media sector....

This ten minute interview with Andrew of Engagemedia (
http://www.engagemedia.org) was conducted in Brighton in early July 2007, as
he and the other Engagemedia Andy (responsible for early development of
IMC's original Active software) were putting the finishing touches to the
Plone-based Plumi package, now released.

This interview will go out on London's Resonance 104.4 FM, Indymedia Global
Reports, 10.30-11.30 pm on Mondays, in August after Resonance have completed
their studio move to the Borough...




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