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In this episode:
We talk with Chris Webber of the media platform Media Goblin.
Here are Doug's notes from the show.
Media Goblin:
Free Software Media Publishing System
Federation Happening Now
Good for audio/video/animation...everything.
Podcasting support is happening
Document/presentations/ebook support as well
Federation eliminates the mini-silo:
Decentralized network has the cohesiveness of single network
$60k crowdfunding campaign!
Pre-announcement!!
Two people full-time.
Outreach for Women & PyPump starts next month.
https://github.com/cashmusic/
WHY?
centralization a problem.
2010 Libre Planet Discussions on Web Centralization
http://autonomo.us/
Federated Search is important.
ownCloud is more like Dropbox
http://owncloud.org/about/
Reapproaching Plugin for Blog media type
Music Video, Band Images,
https://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Live_instances
Crowd-funding??
Blood, Sweat and Tears. Months of agonizing work.
Lots of time planning in advance
Good idea of what you want to do and research, research, research!
Financial Transparency reports are out for 1st campaign
The only things available will be premium hosting.
Figurines?
Modeling done in Blender
Shape Ways did the printing...on demand 3D printing
more 3D printing stuff.
Shape Ways is kinda cool, despite being closed company.
Spinal Tap reference!