GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released

A mere year since the Mediagoblin photo/video sharing project was started, the project has hit version 0.3.0. Release highlights include: a rewrite of the database from MongoDB to SQL (via SQLAlchemy, making it much easier to install), audio support (using the HTML5 <audio> tag), a first take on a mobile interface, and smarter video buffering. Not content to sit idle, the developers are starting work on Salmon protocol support to federate with software like Diaspora in the next release.

Comments

Re:Vanity Site?

[Aleksej]

http://issues.mediagoblin.org/ticket/109

Re:Diaspora

[vlm]

The funny part is RoR has recently (well, recent YEARS) gone thru the growing pains C++ suffered thru maybe a decade or so ago.
C++ used to be exactly the same way, you upgrade gcc/g++ and suddenly nothing compiles anymore.
I think you're pretty much past that with RoR so its safe?

I think they were also trying to make a political point about scalability. The point of the diaspora is not to centralize, not to scale. There were people who Just Didn't Get It about diasporas goals complaining about RoR "How you gonna scale one RoR site to over 500 million users" etc. Thats, um, kind of the point. Shouldn't have more than a household or so per server. Not enough people per server that the admin could make serious dough selling the private info of people he doesn't care about but are on his server anyway. A self correcting privacy policy, sorta, via dispersal.