[plumi-discuss] plumi 0.2 release announcement draft

Fri Feb 8 01:26:53 UTC 2008

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 12:13 +1100, and wrote:
> OK, last time, got feedback in chat from Andy. Will send this on to  
> the announce list and the spam around. Please spread. Nice work  
> peoples!! :)

You want me to forward this on yet? or wait till you have posted ././/

Dave

> 
> ----------
> 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. 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 design cleaner design - thanks Trollfot!
> 
> To download the release go to http://plone.org/products/plumi/
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/02/2008, at 4:37 PM, and wrote:
> 
> > another version using plain text (i hope)
> > and.
> > -------
> >
> > 0.2 Release of Plumi Video Sharing Platform
> > http://plumi.org
> >
> > We're pleased to announce a series of major updates to Plumi, the  
> > free software video sharing content management system. 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
> >
> > FLASH PLAYER
> > Videos play full screen with the flash player and the transcoding  
> > application IndyTube now also transcodes from '.m4v','.ogm','.ogg'  
> > and '.divx' to Flash video.
> >
> > 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.
> > 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 design cleaner design - thanks Trollfot!
> >
> > 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, improved video transcoding and more.  
> > Upgrading to Plone 3 will be happening in the coming months also.
> >
> > On 06/02/2008, at 3:52 PM, and wrote:
> >
> >> 0.2 Release of Plumi Video Sharing Platform
> >> http://plumi.org
> >>
> >> We're pleased to announce a series of major updates to Plumi, the  
> >> free software video sharing content management system. 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
> >>
> >> FLASH PLAYER
> >> Videos play full screen with the flash player and the transcoding  
> >> application IndyTube now also transcodes from '.m4v','.ogm','.ogg'  
> >> and '.divx' to Flash video.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> 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 design cleaner design - thanks Trollfot!
> >>
> >> 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, improved video transcoding and more.  
> >> Upgrading to Plone 3 will be happening in the coming months also.
> >>
> >
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> 
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