[Educational] Plone/Video Sprint Budapest

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Hello all,
EngageMedia and Aspiration are coordinating a Plone Video sprint at this 
years Plone Conference in Budapest, Hungary. The 4 day sprint will be an 
opportunity for developers to collaborate on open video technologies 
around the Plone CMS. The sprint will take place from 31st October 2009 
to 3rd November 2009, directly after the conference.

Topics and Aims
The aims for the sprint are the following

* Increased communication and collaboration between Python, Zope and  
Plone developers working in the area of open video technologies.

* Direct improvement of key video technologies and the video feature  
set available in the Plone CMS so as to increase uptake and  improve 
those sites already implementing Plone video technologies.

* Improved the ease of use, install and set up of Plumi via  technical 
and documentation enhancements, opening it up to a
broader set of users and contributors.

* Increased skill set among sprint participants regarding how to  
implement and develop with the Plumi CMS and for video
technologies more generally in the Plone CMS.

* Increase the community of developers working on Plone and video and  
their effectiveness.

We will be guided by a professional facilitator (Gunner from Aspiration 
- http://www.aspirationtech.org/) to help the group focus on priorities. 
Broadly we aim to work on the following topic areas: building a shared 
roadmap for video on Plone, working on key technical needs such as large 
file handling, transcoding and bittorrent support, improving support for 
FOSS video codecs, publishing and viewing content with mobile devices, 
bug fixing existing video related Plone collective products and 
improving documentation.

Participating
EngageMedia has a very limited number of travel and accommodation 
subsidies to offer to activists and NGO developers based on need. When 
you contact us, please also let us know ASAP if you want to be 
considered for a travel subsidy.

The Plone Video sprint has limited number of places, and you will need 
to register, and please indicate how long for the 4 days you can stay. 
We have a preference for people to stay for the entire 4 days. Please 
add yourself to the team at
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/plone-video-sprint/request-membership
and email contact at engagemedia.org

Regards
Andrew
http://engagemedia.org