First Batch of Libreplanet 2013 Videos Released, Hosted Using Mediagoblin

Via the FSF: "The first round of videos from LibrePlanet 2013 is now available for streaming and downloading. LibrePlanet is an annual conference sponsored and organized by the Free Software Foundation, with LibrePlanet 2013 being the best one yet. ... This year we set out to make sure LibrePlanet featured fully functioning live video streaming using only free software, and it was a great success. The videos are now available for viewing in VP8/Vorbis, both free media formats, and are hosted on an instance of GNU MediaGoblin, the social media sharing platform which many of you helped support." The rest of the videos should trickle onto their Mediagoblin instance over the next weeks. All of the videos are freely licensed (looks like a mixture of CC BY and BY-SA 3.0).

Re:Damn!

[evilviper]

Damn! [...] I was looking forward to watching them :(

Firefox, Opera, and Chrome/Chromium support VP8/WebM out of the box. Internet Explorer just needs the following codecs installed:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/webmmf/thankyou.html [google.com]

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[evilviper]

I was hoping to watch them in good quality, not some blurry non-accelerated shit like VP8.

The quality of VP8 is as good as H.264. It isn't hardware accelerated, no, but modern CPUs are plenty fast enough. Hardware decoding will come in time... H.264 didn't have widespread hardware support out of the gate in 2005, either.

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[crutchy]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/blogms/archive/2008/08/20/how-to-subscribe-to-microsoft-newsletters-on-the-microsoft-profile-center.aspx [technet.com]

obligatory

[crutchy]

look at Apple still trying to rip-off all those iPhone suckers

ftfy

Screw Game Of Thrones

[Ukab the Great]

I am so going to pirate those videos!

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[Kwyj1b0]

"If your part of the 'in' crowd"

THAT IS THE WHOLE FUCKING PROBLEM

Bad grammar?

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[Pav]

Catchup? Linux et. al. started at the front in the internet server space and stayed there. OSS has been the only choice for browsers for at least 10 years now, and other software such as vlc, thunderbird etc... are many peoples preferred applications, and I've been seeing more and more LibreOffice. I'm even seeing Ordinary People installing Linux (which worries me because of Gnome3 and other stupid things happening right now, but nevermind).

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[crutchy]

cause for the last 20 years its been nothing but catch up to microsoft

given microsoft's position in the market for the past 20 years, the majority of the IT industry has been trying to catch up to microsoft

what's sad is that the whole world bought into their bullshit for so long

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[crutchy]

i guess your adsl modem router runs on windows then... sux to be you

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[crutchy]

Oh boy, I hate to be the one to tell you this but... Microsoft has been pilfering code from Linux and open source for years and they still manage to fuck up their software, and Photoshop is just a really bad imitation of Gimp. I'm sorry.

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[Raumkraut]

free software needs to start leading rather than following, just about every noteworthy foss product is a generally crappier knockoff of a proprietary one (notable exceptions include the linux kernel and blender) or just a me-too product. open source is supposed to be about innovation

Firstly, Free software !== Open Source.
Secondly, no. neither Free software nor Open Source have been about innovation. Free software it is a philosophy concerned with Freedom. Open Source is a development methodology which has

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[Pav]

Do you know the same I.T as I do? Even in days of yore OSSland was the centre of many interesting developments eg. most of the embryonic internet technologies... and also more sexy/interesting stuff eg. network/internet gaming pioneered by netrek, mudds etc... social stuff (eg. IRCd etc...). More recently the whole idea of a software repo was knocked off by Apple, and now Microsoft. GUI innovation has really flowered in the OSS world for the last 10 years... although there have certainly been some st

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[Pav]

Ack... and how could I forget the front and centre of computing life now ie. the browser. So many innovations flowed back from the OSS browsers to IE and it's STILL behind.

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[crutchy]

So many innovations flowed back from the OSS browsers to IE and it's STILL behind.

that's not true... IE is on the cutting edge of malware infestation

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[marcello_dl]

LOL Like proprietary software didn't steal ideas from university research, or amateurs even, and like the linux kernel weren't inspired by something else!

I'll give you 1/5 for the trolling content, but 4/5 for the trolling style. Hopefully you were not really convinced of what you wrote.

MediaGoblin sharing security

[mathew42]

I'm looking for an web application I can use to do this, to make it easy for people who attend an event to share photos within a restricted group. Does MediaGoblin provide the ability for me to publish photos taken of family birthday parties, school events. etc. and restrict who views the photos to only family members / school members, etc.?

Yes, I'm fully aware that someone within the group can copy the photos and post them to facebook. That isn't really a concern because the assumption is that the person

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[Pav]

Have you checked out Diaspora* or any other free social networking platforms out there? (I should mention that I don't actually know if Diaspora* will do exactly what you want).

Bam!!! Organic!!!

[pspahn]

They mention "LibrePlanet" four times in the first couple of lines. It reads like an ad for $19.95 bottle of Viagra at 5am sounds.

bad video on Blender

[RMarguls]

Only watch 1/3 of the video. Video always showed the speaker when it should have shown the projected screen with "voice over" by the speaker. "When you click this menu item, it brings up this box ..." IMHO, worthless.

O gosh

[SuperTechnoNerd]

Wait a minute! I thought streaming was a felony thees days! I'm so confused!