Summary

Video functionality has now become a default expectation for online users. Plone's current video capabilities however don't meet most users expectations with products not adequately maintain or fully functional. Whilst much good work has been done there is a lot more to do to ensure Plone provide solid multimedia support. The Video Sprint aims to push Plone's capabilities ahead by convening a great set of coders and organisers to enable Plone's latent video capabilities and drive the further adoption of open source video solutions. A host of vital independent media relies on it.

Read the original callout.

Overall Aims

• Make video a first class citizen on Plone
  
• Increase communication and collaboration between Python, Zope and Plone developers working in the area of open video technologies.

• Direct improvement of the video feature set available in the Plone CMS so as to increase uptake and effectiveness.
  
• Improved the ease of use, install and set up of video in Plone via technical and documentation enhancements, including opening it up to a broader set of users and contributors.
• Build a strong and ongoing community of developers working on Plone and video 

Sprint Goals

A.  The development of a Plone Video Suite to enable the “must have” functionality based on already existing small tools such as collective.flowplayer, p4avideoembed etc. The aim is to avoid building something monolithic and re-inventing the wheel and to keep the suite small with the minimum required functionality. We want to ensure we have realistic outcomes that are reachable during the sprint. A lot of the tools are already there, they just need to be tweaked to play well together.

B.  The Future of Plone Video – using Tiles, Dexterity other bleeding edge tech to prototype plone video functionality for Plone 4 and 5.

C.  Essential improvements to already existing video tools such as plone4artists and Plumi. See p4a and Plumi sections

More in Brainstorming

Organisation and Logistics

Video Sprint Logistics - Location etc

Video Sprint Schedule

buildout - https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/plonevideosuite/trunk/  or as anonymous http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/plonevideosuite/trunk/

IRC Channel - irc.freenode.net  #plonevideosprint

Sign up!

Please sign up to the Sprint Team to be listed as an attendee. This will also sign you up to the mailing list.

Remote Sprinting

We welcome remote sprinters. We'll be putting our energy first and foremost into the people on the ground but we aim to help those wanting to participate remotely as much as possible and will have point people to help with remote coordination.

Background Reading

Intro to Sprinting - http://jstahl.org/archives/2006/11/15/sprint-wisdom/

Running a good sprint - http://jstahl.org/archives/2009/10/13/even-more-sprint-wisdom/

Limi on Plone's rich media handling - http://limi.net/articles/improve-plones-handling-of-rich-media/

 

Sponsors and Organisers

The video sprint is funded through the generous support of the Open Society Institute and coorindated by EngageMedia with the assistance of Aspiration and Plone4Artists.