Hi Asheesh, First, thanks for PCF offers here (also your's). We've talked (mostly you and Holger) in debconf-video IRC channel about this. Now I'll try to summarize the relevant points here in order to address our next steps on this issue.
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:12:40 -0400 (EDT), Asheesh Laroia wrote > Hi Debconf video team, > > So, hi. I'm working with the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) > on Miro Community. I'm also a person who works on packages in > Debian every once in a while, and goes to Debconfs whenever I can. > > Miro Community is free, Django-based, AGPLv3-licensed software that > anyone can use to create a curated video collection on the web. We > also host instances of it, like http://debian.mirocommunity.org/. > Participatory Culture Foundation is a US-based non-profit that is > dedicated to supporting a democratic media by creating open and > decentralized video tools and services. Lately we've been asking > Miro Community sites with a lot of videos, custom options, or > multiple admins to help us offset hosting and software development costs. > > Tiago wrote a post here > <http://tiagovaz.org/weblog/index.cgi/english/20110406.01-bye-miro- > community> about it. As y'all know, debian.mirocommunity.org is > above a few of the limits of our free-of-cost hosting tier. > > There are a few reasonable ways forward: > > * Debian can self-host a Miro Community instance; I'm happy to help > with that. I'm the upstream maintainer, and if someone else wants to > do packaging, I can do what I can to make that easy. That's likely > to be the most satisfying scenario for Debian. If we (Debian) are > lacking a shell account to run MC on, then I can let people have > access to the VM I'm using for expo.debian.net. It seems we agreed to this option: 20:32 < h01ger> MeetBot, pingall feedback on self hosting a miro setup like described above welcome! :-) ...for the following reasons: 18:47 < moray> h01ger: right, Debian doesn't lack hardware. 18:48 < moray> and something simpler like a slightly-fixed http://people.debian.org/~moray/video/ could be used as a stopgap of course, if that turns out not to be easy to get going somehow 20:23 < paulproteus> If hosting it on mirocommunity.org is the goal, then I can get us that Max account, as I said, if we plan to use+promote it+use universal subtitles. 20:25 < h01ger> paulproteus, we want self hosting. next week/month/year miro gets bought by google|apple|nokia|deutsche bank and that account is shutdown without further notice. or whatever. we're reasonable people and cant risk that 8-) 20:25 < paulproteus> h01ger: Sure, just wanted to make sure I offered (-: [...] > I, personally, think it would be great if Debian uses MC, hosted by > PCF or otherwise. So we're almost there :) If there's no objection, let's schedule a meeting to start the Miro setup in apu.dc.o. Your help will be very appreciated. At least 1 apu admin is needed for this meeting. Please: http://www.doodle.com/krzqtedbym8r6h7s [...] Regards, -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz http://tiagovaz.org 0xA504FECA - http://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
