<videovortex> Plumi 0.2 released

[andrew lowenthal]

Hi all,
unfortunately I didn't manage to make it to Amsterdam for VV and get  
to know you all, hoping this may be of interest however.

Cheers.
And.

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0.2 Release of Plumi Video Sharing Platform
http://plumi.org
http://plone.org/products/plumi/

We're pleased to announce a series of major updates to Plumi, the  
free software video sharing content management system. Plumi enables  
you to create a sophisticated video sharing and community site out-of- 
the-box. In a web landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep  
their distribution platform under lock and key Plumi is one  
contribution to creating a truly democratic media.

These updates include major enhancements to site speed and reduced  
server load, a new design and features such as tagging and call outs.

More specifically the improvements include....

CALL OUTS
We've added a new content type: "Call Outs" to help people looking  
for content for a DVD compilation, screenings, film festival or crew  
for a production.
eg. http://www.engagemedia.org/recent_callouts

COMMENT ENHANCEMENTS
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

VODCASTING/RSS2
We've improved the vodcasting performance using a catalogue based  
RSS2 feed view implementation, meaning RSS2 feeds load much faster.

TAGGING
Tagging is now based on the Vaporisation product resulting in much  
faster page loads and navigation of content.
eg. http://www.engagemedia.org/tagcloud/view
http://plone.org/products/vaporisation/

PERFORMANCE AND TEMPLATE ENHANCEMENTS
- templates are refactored into a new 'Five' style view  
implementation that are Plone 3 ready resulting in faster page loads
- video listings no longer wake the objects from the zope database  
(ZODB) improving catalogue searching and speed
- Plumi 0.2 runs now on Plone 2.5.5 (Plone 3 coming soon)
- a new cleaner design - thanks Trollfot!

To download the release go to
http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/0.2-final

For more specific details of changes see the changelog
https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Plumi/trunk/CHANGELOG.txt

A demo site with the improvements can be found here:
http:// demo.plumi.org

For a full list of features see http://blog.plumi.org/features/

NEW PLUMI SITES
A number of organisations have implemented Plumi in the previous few  
months. These include...
- World Social Forum TV - http://wsftv.net
- CabTube - http://cabtube.cab.unipd.it/
- Africa on TV - http://www.africaontv.com/
- Contents Portal Shikoku - http://archive.ict-tokushima.jp/plumi/

FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
Plumi 0.3 will include bittorrent functionality, user side  
enhancements  to video pages, Transmission metadata standard,
improved video  transcoding and more. Upgrading to Plone 3 will be  
happening in the coming months also.

GET INVOLVED
If you are interested in working on Plumi check http://plumi.org for  
more details or visit us in irc.freenode.net #plumi.