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For just over a year we've been building

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an exciting new project for the web [br]called GNU MediaGoblin

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MediaGoblin is a media publishing system

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for hosting audio, video, images, and more.

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It's free software, and anyone can run it.

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... and customize it.

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It can do a lot of cool things, including supporting multiple media types,

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from images, to videos, to audio

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This means you can have all your media in one place.

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It's also built for extensibility.

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You can add entirely new media types,

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even something crazy like ascii art. Why not?

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MediaGoblin is heading in awesome directions

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to help make the web a more beautiful place.

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But we need YOUR help to make it happen!

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The internet and the web were designed [br]to be decentralized

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This is great, because it enables [br]a global and diverse voice.

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It's also very resilient; if one server goes down [br]for whatever reason,

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the internet still exists.

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To quote John Gilmore, [br]"The Net interprets censorship as damage

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and routes around it."

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But recently, the internet has been moving [br]in a different direction...

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Increasingly instead of a resilient web[br]of smaller websites

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we have larger, more centralized sites

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This has several problems.

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For one thing, the more centralized [br]the web becomes,

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the easier it is for organizations [br]to automate censorship,

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either via the centralized host directly,

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or even through the pressures [br]of external institutions.

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In such a system, the internet can't route [br]around damage any more.

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Things are much more fragile generally, too.

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In a more decentralized web,

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if one node goes out, the whole system lives on.

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But what if everyone's photos were on Flickr

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and it disappeared? [br]What would happen if YouTube went away?

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What would happen to cat videos on the internet?

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It would be like a cat massacre.

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This leads to a Sad Internet.

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This is why we're building MediaGoblin.

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MediaGoblin is devoted to freedom and putting power back into the hands of users.

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It's a GNU project because we care [br]a lot about freedom.

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And there's a lot of stuff we've done that's cool.

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We have support for all different types of media..

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...and support for more could happen soon!

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We have theming so you can make it look any way you want.

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We have OpenStreetMap Support, [br]so you can see where your pictures were taken!

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We have commenting and other things [br]that web users are used to.

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It's real software, you can run it yourself!

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Over the last year and a half, [br]we have had over 50 contributors

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and have made several significant releases

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This is exciting times!

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But we need your help!

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MediaGoblin has come a long way,

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but there's a lot more it really needs

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so it can be the best media hosting option[br]that there is.

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Most noticeably, we need federation.

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Federation is how email works:

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you and your friends might be [br]on entirely different servers

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but emailing between them [br]feels like they're on the same thing.

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We want media hosting to work the same way.

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StatusNet, the federated microblog service

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has paved the way for a lot [br]of the functionality we'll need...

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but serving up video, sound and images

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has it's own thorny problems[br]and that's why we need your help.

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We have awesome programmers, [br]and we know how to build this stuff!

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But MediaGoblin needs dedicated resources

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so the project can get the attention it needs.

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This is also known as the "coders gotta eat" problem.

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We have a great roadmap and we want you [br]to pitch in some money

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so we can hire our talented developers [br]and designers

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to build the pieces MediaGoblin needs

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to reach its full awesome potential.

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Developers are standing by,

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ready to give us their hours, [br]but we need your support.

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Thank you for listening.

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Please support MediaGoblin

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and help us make the world's most beautiful [br]media publishing future come true!