EngageMedia are very excited to announce the first public release of Plumi, a Plone based video sharing CMS. Plumi enables you to create a sophisticated video sharing and community site out-of-the-box. In a web landscape where almost all video sharing sites keep their distribution platform under lock and key, Plumi is one contribution to creating a truly democratic media.
http://plumi.org | http://engagemedia.org

Plumi adds a range of products and configurations to Plone to enable
a wide array of functionality including:

• Video uploading in any format (over http)
• Automatic server-side flash transcoding and embedded playback
• Playback of Quicktime, Flash video, Real and Windows Media within the browser
• Expanded video metadata set and classifications system
• RSS1 and RSS2 (vodcast) feeds created automatically from taxonomy items - eg country, genre, member, topic, or through creating custom smart folders
• Tagging
• Custom templates for browsing and publishing
• Custom profile page for site members with their personal vodcast feed
• Open Content Licensing including Creative Commons (through their API), the GNU Free Documentation License and the ability to add your own custom licenses

Future features will include:

• Automatic creation and seeding of BitTorrent files upon video upload
• Large video file uploads
• Mobile phone uploads and downloads
• Enhanced calendar functionality
• Transmission metadata standard
• Donations system for contributors and online purchasing
• Integration with gnutella and other p2p networks
• Collaborative film production tools

Download

To download version 0.1 RC1 see
http://plumi.org or
http://plone.org/products/plumi

Demo

For an out-of-the-box demo of Plumi see http://demo.plumi.org

Getting involved

To stay up to date with developments you can join the announcement
list http://lists.plumi.org/listinfo/plumi-announce

If you are interested in getting involved in development, have questions or suggestions you can:

• join the developers mailing list: http://lists.plumi.org/listinfo/discuss
• join in chat: irc.freenode.net #plumi
• email contact@engagemedia.org

Plumi is the system that runs http://engagemedia.org - a video sharing site focused on social and environmental issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. EngageMedia is an Australian based media/tech activist collective.