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Welcome to the Ourmedia Tools project

This is the place where people can discuss, share and collaborate on the methods, tools and best practices used at Ourmedia.org and related sites. Ourmedia is built using the Drupal open source, content management system. All of our work here is licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License .

We hope that what we learn can be applied to your own projects. This site consists of these wiki pages, together with discussion forums and blog posts by the folks who work on the Ourmedia projects. If you would like to join in on the fun (and hard work), please register for a Tools account and carve out your own niche in our ecosystem. Do you have an idea for an interesting channel or project that would fit with Ourmedia's mission of showcasing collaborative media producers? Please join and let's make it happen. Do you see ways to improve Ourmedia? Then please join and give us a hand!

Starting Out

• Contributing - see how you can help out
• FAQ - ask your question in here
• Troubleshooting - what to do in case of system problems

Projects

• Player - What we need and how we'd use it
• UI redesign - short-term and long-term design changes for Ourmedia
• Blogging module - how to plug WordPress into Ourmedia
• Moderator tools - helping out our volunteer moderator team
• Ourmedia Publisher - a tool for uploading audio, video and other media
• Tagging - tagging needs work
• Forums - we need a new platform for the Ourmedia Forums
• Ourmedia Upgrade - Upgrade Drupal to 6
• Terms of Service comparison
• Channels
• Conference - planning a video conference (postponed)

Development

• Prioritized tasks - a priority list of tasks to tackle. JD added the former "Channels & beyond" page to this new master page.
• Development priorities - the items that most need our attention(but Prioritized tasks, above, replaces this)
• Upload process - our current upload process
• Channels and partners - who we should we working with and sharing our content with
• Positioning - our philosophy, explaining how Ourmedia is different from YouTube, etc.
• To Do - ideas for what needs tackling
• Roadmap - see what our plans are
• Technology partners - a few of the companies we're talking with
• Suggested Features - a collection of the features we are considering implementing
• Issue Tracker - for submitting bug reports and filing feature requests
• Developers - developers working on Ourmedia
• People - people working on Ourmedia, contact info, roles
• Source Code - Steps to access and contribute to the Ourmedia Source
• Personal Development Ourmedia - How to setup Ubuntu-Server 6.06 as an Ourmedia Development Testbed
• Development Log - Tracking changes to Ourmedia sites

Links & related sites

• Ourmedia.org - the main website
• Moderators wiki - for Ourmedia's mods, *but* this is now a complete mess after Socialtext's redesign.
• Ourmedia wiki- for all non-development matters. Most of this is outdated.
• Learning Center wiki - This has completely disappeared from the Socialtext site.

How to use this wiki

• Please create an account here and log in so we can tell who is making changes to what. :~)
• Also, please add your name or initials before or after your entries (comments) so that we don't have to call up a page history to know who is saying what.
• If you have questions or comments, please feel free to make them right on the wiki.
• Links: You make links on this wiki in two ways: (1) to create a new page, first add double brackets around words or phrases , save it, then click on the link to add content to the new page, or (2) to link to an outside site, type in a bracket, the url, a space, some text and then an end bracket like so: [http://www.newmediamusings.com New Media Musings]
• Formatting: Formatting is a bit odd on a Media wiki: 3 single apostrophe marks to boldface a word; two single apostrophe marks to italicize a word; don't include spaces before the first word of a line or it'll give you an extra line break; use asterisks to get bullets; if you don't use bullets, you'll neet to use (br) in carats for line breaks. (The formatting is completely different from that of Socialtext.) Here is a Mediawiki Syntax Cheatsheet.

Note: This wiki is public.

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