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You will never get normal people to use this thing. This is just a big advertisement for open source developers to pick up a new coding hobby. It's really sad, because you could build an alternative to those services if you focused more on the product and less on IRC, git and LibreOffice.
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Heya! So, it's hard to know precisely re: 1.0, but I'm anticipating approximately towards the end of the year. Federation is the big thing we're still waiting on until we consider ourselves 1.0-worthy. Probably we could have tagged ourselves 1.0 a while ago and considered federation 2.0, but federation is at the root of a lot of our goals, so... Anyway, once all our summer projects wrap up, I think we'll have reached…
What is the status of the "federation" feature? I see there's two ideas of it on the Wiki. Will it support easy mirroring of media? Will the site be also metaservers (servers that provide the addresses of other servers), or proxy servers (they serve the content of other servers they know of)? What about the bandwidth issues (often bandwidth is asymmetric between upstream/downstream)? Maybe some form of load balancing…
Re: mirroring, I replied to that a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180159
Additionally, you can already host media files with an OpenStack Swift cloud files provider like Rackspace Cloud if you prefer.
I don't know anything about windows or macs personally, though people have gotten mediagoblin working just fine on macs... windows is harder. :) I don't have any clue when that packaging might happen though... if it happens, it'll be by someone else I guess; I just don't know anything about it.
You will never get normal people to use this thing. This is just a big advertisement for open source developers to pick up a new coding hobby. It's really sad, because you could build an alternative to those services if you focused more on the product and less on IRC, git and LibreOffice.
Travel back in time and see if you would have your response would be any different to Linus announcing that he is starting a new operating system.
Linus announcing his kernel was in a time when there were no open Unix-like operating systems to use. The GNU kernel was years away from release, but all the tools were there to make an operating system out of the tools, if there were just a free kernel too. (The only other kernels available were not available to the general public for free) It took years for a somewhat usable component to appear to look like a product once packaged correctly.
There exist open alternatives to galleries and video players, which is what this effectively is. That's not to say that in years this couldn't be a usable alternative to YouTube, but it's currently not being developed as a product. Instead it's apparently a high school class project. If they want people to use this, it needs some kind of vision other than yet-another-open-source-clone-we-don't-need-itis.
Reminds of the line from Spaceballs: "now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb." Seriously, what an amatuerish-looking mess. White text on black, no clear navigation path, I can't imagine any random end user actually using one of these sites.
So it's an excellent opportunity for up and coming designers to contribute to a promising open source project.
As a designer there is only that much you can do if you don't get support, or get conflicting views from the client (= all the contributors in the project).
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Travel back in time and see if you would have your response would be any different to Linus announcing that he is starting a new operating system.
I can't travel back in time. Left the TARDIS in a different century again. Linus announcing his kernel was in a time when there were no open Unix-like operating systems to use. The GNU kernel was years away from release, but all the tools were there to make an operating system out of the tools, if there were just a free kernel too. (The only other kernels available were not available to the general public for free) I…
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I wasn't suggesting that there'd be anything conscious about the branding, but that it'd be subconscious, so you wouldn't be likely to hear feedback. It's a minor nit, really. Glad to hear about theming. Flickr/500px/other sites chose to let users opt-in to black backgrounds, I think that is a nice approach - some media is better highlighted by a dark background, but not all. All the best to your project.
Thanks!
Also I beg of you to fix the color temp on that cupcake photo. People who are interested in sharing media will notice.
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#2: GNU only have recommendations for GNU projects regarding licensing (posted at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html). In it, AGPL is the license of choice for software that interacts with its users over a network, but it is only a recommendation. Project leaders and project communities are the ones who decide.
#3: News articles rarely mention license in the title, except when the linked website is titled as such. Do we really need to title every software article by its license?
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Travel back in time and see if you would have your response would be any different to Linus announcing that he is starting a new operating system.
I can't travel back in time. Left the TARDIS in a different century again. Linus announcing his kernel was in a time when there were no open Unix-like operating systems to use. The GNU kernel was years away from release, but all the tools were there to make an operating system out of the tools, if there were just a free kernel too. (The only other kernels available were not available to the general public for free) I…
Rather, the projects scope is to create a federated gallery and video player, where each installed instance is connected with each other.
That has so far not been reached yet, which is why this software hasn't reached their 1.0 goal yet.