Id love to help out. Anyway I'll start to talk about it here although I agree that more detailed discussions probably belong elsewhere. Is there somewhere we can go to talk about this in more detail on the web? Should we talk about it on drupal forums or is there better alternatives or reasons not to?
I havent tried Drupal 5 beta yet. I plan to install it soon (been testing 4.7 previously). From memory, the video module isnt part of the core is it? So I guess its not really beneficial to have mediaRSS as part of the core unless video is too? I see the video module is being updated quite a lot recently, seems like automatic thumbnails and other stuff got added in November, by the looks of CSV messges: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/25274 So anyways I was ondering if you will be working with whoever is currently maintaining the video module, that sort of thing. I am not a very good programmer so Idoubt I can be too much direct help, but I can do testing & give technical feedback. I have some funds that would probably translate to $200 US available to help the cause, if its actually of use. Is there some sort of channel for drual sponsored projects or is it just simply paying directly whoever is willing (eg you by the sounds of it, groovy), to dedicate some time to the work? Both my own future blog/vlog site, and some other projects, are on infinite hold waiting for me to do a drupal site properly with the features I know I want. Drupal has come quite a long way, esp the video module, and Im confident Drupal with the right modules can do 80% of what I need right now. Further improvements to video & feed features are something I care enough about to contribute to financially, so may actually have more money than stated above available if this stuff starts to fly. There are also weirder things Id like to do if a few other existing modules did just a bit more, and knew about eachother a little more. I see google map and timeline modules, and it makes me wonder about mashing them together with video content uploaded to the site, and having odd new ways to see peoples videos mapped to time and space. It might be a dud idea for all I know, but until I see it I wont know if its a failure, and I dont qutie have the skills to make it happen. Cheers Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Savarino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure sponsoring a G would improve the chance of adding mRSS to > the Drupal core (version 5.0), which is still in beta. After the > final release, all changes to the core modules will be part of the > next version. > > However, mRSS would be easy to add alongside an existing Drupal site... > > You could create a new module that generates your mRSS file(s) upon > each node add/edit, or better yet, just run it every hour w/ the cron > function built into the module. > > If others are interested in Drupal, I'd love to talk more with you. > > I'm going to start building add-on modules for version 5... > > aggregator: > - full support for enclosures, mRSS and geoRSS > > video: > - improve add/edit form > - expand mime-types (currently m4v not used w/ QT) > - expand services (add myspace video, tagworld, etc) > - add iTunes feed (w/ customized options like Feedburner) > > Email me offlist if you'd like to help out or have other feature requests. > > -Matt > http://vlogmap.org > http://ridertech.com >
