ANN: Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.1 b1 released - now with Plone 3.0 support!

Plone4ArtistsVideo [1] is an add-on product for Plone which lets you add 
videos to your Plone site. It supports the uploading of video files or 
embedding of videos that are already hosted on popular video sharing 
sites such as Youtube and Google Video.

Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.1b1 brings Plone 3 compatibility, support for 
additional MIME types, support for uStream.tv and FLV URL extraction of 
videos on Youtube and Blip.tv, default dimensions for videos, a Rich 
Text description field, improved test coverage and many bug fixes.

See the complete feature list and changelog here:
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsvideo/releases/1.1

This Valentine's Day release of Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.1 is dedicated to 
the many generous contributors [2] who pledged financial contributions 
to make this release possible. Thank you all for your support!

Also, thanks to Jonathan Lewis for putting together another fabulous 
screencast which demonstrates the many features of Plone4ArtistsVideo. 
Watch the screencast to experience a nice intro the the product.

Screencast: http://plone.tv/media/1414522219

Last but not least, thanks to the tireless efforts of these amazing 
developers Rocky Burt, Alec Mitchell, Ross Patterson and Tim Terlegard 
for making this product what it is.

Please download the product, try it out on your Plone 2.5/3.0 sites and 
give us feedback on the mailing list [3] and report any bugs on the 
issue tracker [4].

Plone4Artists releases new audio, video and calendar products

In case you're not monitoring these lists, here's another email that I 
sent to plone.user, plone.devel and plone.sprints and plone.multimedia.

Thanks to the hard work of the sprinters at the Plone4Artists sprint in
Boston
(http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-sprint-in-boston-a-success/), 

we made new releases of the follow products in the Plone4Artists suite:

New releases
============
Plone4ArtistsSite 1.0 Alpha 4
Bundle package which includes audio, video and calendaring
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistssite/

Plone4ArtistsAudio 1.0 RC
Audio file (MP3 / Ogg) handling including extraction of metadata
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsaudio/

Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.0 Beta
Video file handling and embedding of videos hosted on YouTube, Google
Video, blip.tv, etc.
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsvideo/

Plone4ArtistsCalendar 1.0 RC
Turn any folder into a calendar of events. iCal import/export.
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistscalendar

PloneFlashUpload 1.0 Final
Bulk upload multiple files via your browser

Plone4Artists sprint in Boston a success!

This is the email that I sent to plone.user, plone.devel and 
plone.sprints and plone.multimedia.

If you want to read this announcement on the website including photos, 
click on this link:
http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-sprint-in-boston-a-success/

The Plone4Artists / multimedia sprint took place July 18-22 in Boston,
MA. We had 23 participants from all over the country, including two
European sprinters from Berlin and Finland.
http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists

Hailing from Canada, Rocky Burt, the lead developer of the Plone4Artists
products conducted two days of excellent training right before the
sprint: Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers.

If you missed the course in Boston, you're in luck! It will also be
offered again right before the Plone Conference in Naples.
http://jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-naples

There were also 8 remote sprinters from far away places such as Japan,
Australia, Italy and Switzerland, who tuned into the live video stream
and collaborated via the #plone4artists IRC chat channel.
http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone4artists-sprint/participants-page

The focus of the sprint was to improve the multimedia capabilities of
Plone, and in particular to fix bugs and prepare the Plone4Artists suite
of products for a new release. I'm happy to report that thanks to the
hard work of the sprinters, we successfully made new releases of several
products: http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-new-releases

Plone4Artists releases new audio, video and calendar products

Thanks to the hard work of the sprinters at the Plone4Artists sprint in 
Boston 
(http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-sprint-in-boston-a-success/), 

we made new releases of the follow products in the Plone4Artists suite:

New releases
============

Plone4ArtistsSite 1.0 Alpha 4
Bundle package which includes audio, video and calendaring
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistssite/

Plone4ArtistsAudio 1.0 RC
Audio file (MP3 / Ogg) handling including extraction of metadata
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsaudio/

Plone4ArtistsVideo 1.0 Beta
Video file handling and embedding of videos hosted on YouTube, Google 
Video, blip.tv, etc.
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsvideo/

Plone4ArtistsCalendar 1.0 RC
Turn any folder into a calendar of events. iCal import/export.
http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistscalendar

PloneFlashUpload 1.0 Final
Bulk upload multiple files via your browser
http://plone4artists.org/products/ploneflashupload/

Plone4Artists sprint in Boston a success!

I apologize in advance for the lengthy email. If you want to read this 
announcement on the website including photos, click on this link:
http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-sprint-in-boston-a-success/

The Plone4Artists / multimedia sprint took place July 18-22 in Boston,
MA. We had 23 participants from all over the country, including two
European sprinters from Berlin and Finland.
http://plone.org/events/sprints/plone4artists

Hailing from Canada, Rocky Burt, the lead developer of the Plone4Artists
products conducted two days of excellent training right before the
sprint: Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers.

If you missed the course in Boston, you're in luck! It will also be
offered again right before the Plone Conference in Naples.
http://jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-naples

There were also 8 remote sprinters from far away places such as Japan,
Australia, Italy and Switzerland, who tuned into the live video stream
and collaborated via the #plone4artists IRC chat channel.
http://www.openplans.org/projects/plone4artists-sprint/participants-page

The focus of the sprint was to improve the multimedia capabilities of
Plone, and in particular to fix bugs and prepare the Plone4Artists suite
of products for a new release. I'm happy to report that thanks to the
hard work of the sprinters, we successfully made new releases of several
products: http://plone4artists.org/newsitems/plone4artists-new-releases

Sprint reports
==============

Fwd: [Engage-Announce] Embedded Flash Video on EngageMedia.org

Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers - July 16-17 in Boston

Want to learn more about using Zope 3 technology in Plone? Now's
your chance to get hands-on instruction from one of the leading Zope 3
gurus in the Plone community: Rocky Burt.

We are pleased to announce "Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers"
a comprehensive 2-day training course offered in Boston, MA
on July 16-17. This course is specifically targeted at the developer
already familiar with Plone and Archetypes who now wants to leverage
Zope 3 component architecture in their Plone products.

More info:
http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers

INSTRUCTOR
Rocky Burt is a recognized leader in the Plone community, having been
elected to the Plone framework team, contributed to the popular book
"Web Component Development with Zope 3", developer of many Plone
products and author of the Plone4Artists suite of products. Rocky is
an expert in using Zope 3 technologies in Plone, and has given various
conference/sprint talks on this subject including a three hour tutorial
at the last Plone Conference in Seattle.

DATES
July 16-17, 2007

LOCATION
Christian Science Center
1 Norway St.
Boston, MA  USA

REGISTRATION
The preferred class size is 10-15, so we encourage you to sign up now
to reserve your spot. There is also an early bird special if you sign up
before May 31. Please see the training page for the cost and to  
register.
http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers

All participants will receive a copy of Phillips von Weitershausen's
book "Web Component Development with Zope 3" (Second Edition).

PREREQUISITES
Knowledge of Plone and experience developing Plone products with
Archetypes. Python programming skills.

COVERS
Everything you need to know about developing Plone products the "Zope
3 way", using adapters, view classes and interfaces. See the training
page for the full agenda of topics covered.
http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers

REQUIREMENTS
A laptop computer to follow along with this hands-on class.

CONTACT
Please contact training@... if you have any questions about
the training.

thanks,
Nate

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Re: FWIW, some ATVideo feedback

Hi Jon,

Thanks for trying out ATVideo and sending your feedback. You might
want to talk to the guys at Lovely Systems and EngageMedia who are
using ATVideo in production, to see if they have any tips for how to
handle the RAM spikes.

The easiest solution that I can think of is to let Apache serve up the
video files, rather than Zope. This is a simple rewrite rule in your
Apache's vhost config file, which says that any request for mimetype
video/quicktime (or whatever) should be served up directly from the
file system, rather than passing on that request to Zope.

In this way, Zope only handles the uploading and storage of metadata
about the video file, but Apache does all the heavy lifting of serving
up the videos. Tramline is not required for this solution - only if
you want Apache to handle the uploads as well.

As for the p4a.video product, we expect to address the issue of
serving up the large video files. Maybe Rocky has some ideas about
this. We've talked about using Amazon S3 or Revver to store and serve
the videos, but of course this introduces a dependency on a 3rd party
service.

You might also want to check out Alec Mitchell's p4a.videoembed
product which lets you upload the videos to Youtube, Google Video,
blip.tv, etc. and have these videos play back on your Plone site.

Hope this helps.
Nate

On 1/8/07, Jon Stahl <jon@...> wrote:
>
>
> Nate, Rocky-
>
> Not sure if this is helpful to you, but I have just finished trying out
> ATVideo for a small project, and have had to reject it as a solution.
> Perhaps I'm missing something, I don't know.
>
> The problem:
>
> I have a client with a small intranet (<150 users) who has about 10
> quicktime videos they want to share with authenticated users only.  Each
> video is about 60-200 MB in size.
>
> Server is Zope 2.9.5/Plone 2.5.
>
> I successfully installed ATVideo (w/ ExtStorage), uploaded a few videos.
> The smaller videos worked pretty well, but when Zope attempted to serve up
> larger videos, the RAM spiked quite considerably (with a 200MB file, from a
> baseline of 125MB to ~850MB, then back down to ~470MB) which brought my
> server to its knees. 
>
> As far as I'm aware, there's no real way to solve this problem without doing
> something Tramline-ish, thus delegating the task of serving up the video
> files to Apache.  That is outside the reach of this tiny little project.
>
> Am I overlooking something obvious?  It seems like this seriously limits the
> practical usability of ATVideo, which may well be why you are doing
> P4A.video.
>
> best,
> jon
>
>
> -----------------------------
> Jon Stahl, Program Manager
> ONE/Northwest - Online Networking for the Environment
> jon@...  http://www.onenw.org
> 206.286.1235x15  skype: jonstahl  y!: jondstahl
>
> Want a piece of my mind? Check out my blog at:
> http://blogs.onenw.org/jon
>

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Re: Seeking your Wisdom on ATPhoto

Have you tried the Plone 2.5 compatible branch of ATPhoto?
http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/ATPhoto/branches/ATPhoto-Plone25/

Nate

On 12/28/06, bruce.deutsch@...
<bruce.deutsch@...> wrote:
>
> You are receiving this mail because Bruce Deutsch (brucend75),
bruce.deutsch@... is sending feedback about content created
by you at http://plone.org/author/nateaune.
>
> The message sent was:
>
> Nate, I'm at critical decision with new high school site whether I can live with or without ATPhoto. The app
is so right in so many ways for all dimensions of my vision -- but I'd be deploying on a Plone 2.5. Don't know if
known problems are deal-breakers, or if there is a path to happiness between 2.5 &amp; ATPhoto.
Complicating matters, I'm having problems getting ATPhoto recognized by Zope/Plone after an
install/uninstall/reinstall. But I REALLY want to use all the power of ATPhoto!! Could you take some time
to help me make decision. I'd really appreciate it.
bdeutsch@... Thank you so much in advance, Bruce Deutsch
>
>
> --
> plone.org Administrator
>
>
>

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Re: ATPhoto/ATPhotoAlbum + Plone 2.5.1?

I'm actually not that familiar with the ATPhoto code because I'm not
the author. I suggest that you post to the plone-users list, or else
contact the authors directly: Jean-Francois and Russ Ferriday (cc'ed).

On 12/13/06, Chris Hutchison <soccerbum@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Nate,
>
> I've been working with the ATPhoto branch for Plone 2.5 and so far it's
> looking solid.  I can import/export/slideshow with no problems so far.
> Thanks for sharing the source with me.  :)
>
> I have an interesting little problem involving the slideshow for ATPhoto
> and I was hoping that a little info from you (or the list CCd here)
> would get me past this hurdle:
>
> I am running a custom skin/theme where I've cleaned up the look alot,
> including the tabs where I can import,export,slideshow.  I've setup a
> <tal:condition> line that looks like this:
>
> tal:condition="python:context.portal_type in ['CalCMF Calendar',
> 'ATPhoto', 'ATPhotoAlbum']"
>
> It's great(!) in that it keeps the tabs away unless the
> context.portal_type is one of the three types above.  The interesting
> thing though is that these three (well two because obviously the
> Calendar isn't involved here :) ) don't seem to give enough leeway for
> ATPhoto to do its slideshow thing.  When I click on the slideshow tab
> (which *does* show up to be clicked upon), I get the little slideshow
> controls, but the photos never show up.
> When I go revert to the Plone Default theme though, the slideshow works
> just fine.
>
> I can view the photos in "View" or "Contents" just fine, but slideshow's
> gone MIA on me.  I was wondering if there's another content type I could
> add into the condition above to fix it or whether I need to go deeper
> (as in the problem probably lies elsewhere).
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
> Nate Aune wrote:
> > There is a special branch of ATPhoto which supposedly works with Plone
> > 2.5. I haven't tried it but you're welcome to check it out here:
> > http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/ATPhoto/branches/ATPhoto-Plone25/
> >
> > We're soon going to start on a new photo product for Plone. The
> > placeholder page is here:
> > http://plone4artists.org/products/plone4artistsimage
> >
> > Nate
> >
> > On 12/4/06, personaltechnologist@...
> > <personaltechnologist@...> wrote:
> >>
> >> You are receiving this mail because Chris H. (creativedynamo),
> >> personaltechnologist@... is sending feedback about content
> >> created by you at http://plone.org/author/nateaune.
> >>
> >> The message sent was:
> >>
> >> Hi Nate! I'm in need of a photo album module for Plone. I was
> >> wondering if ATPhoto/Album works with Plone 2.5 and if there are any
> >> plans to release a beta. If not, do you have any recommendations for
> >> me? Currently the best looking option is AT Media Page (which isn't a
> >> photo album per se, but might be able to do for a quick fix). I like
> >> the idea of Flickr but I want to have the option of not using Flickr
> >> as well. Thanks for your time! -Chris
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> plone.org Administrator
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

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