1 00:00:01,033 --> 00:00:03,301 For just over a year we've been building 2 00:00:03,301 --> 00:00:06,333 an exciting new project for the web called GNU MediaGoblin 3 00:00:06,333 --> 00:00:09,104 MediaGoblin is a media publishing system 4 00:00:09,104 --> 00:00:13,698 for hosting audio, video, images, and more. 5 00:00:13,698 --> 00:00:15,533 It's free software, and anyone can run it. 6 00:00:15,533 --> 00:00:17,168 ... and customize it. 7 00:00:17,168 --> 00:00:20,573 It can do a lot of cool things, including supporting multiple media types, 8 00:00:20,573 --> 00:00:24,498 from images, to videos, to audio 9 00:00:24,498 --> 00:00:27,312 This means you can have all your media in one place. 10 00:00:27,312 --> 00:00:29,441 It's also built for extensibility. 11 00:00:29,441 --> 00:00:31,674 You can add entirely new media types, 12 00:00:31,674 --> 00:00:34,967 even something crazy like ascii art. Why not? 13 00:00:34,967 --> 00:00:38,240 MediaGoblin is heading in awesome directions 14 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,237 to help make the web a more beautiful place. 15 00:00:40,237 --> 00:00:42,501 But we need YOUR help to make it happen! 16 00:00:42,501 --> 00:00:45,969 The internet and the web were designed to be decentralized 17 00:00:45,969 --> 00:00:51,367 This is great, because it enables a global and diverse voice. 18 00:00:51,367 --> 00:00:56,967 It's also very resilient; if one server goes down for whatever reason, 19 00:00:56,967 --> 00:00:59,170 the internet still exists. 20 00:00:59,170 --> 00:01:03,705 To quote John Gilmore, "The Net interprets censorship as damage 21 00:01:03,705 --> 00:01:05,776 and routes around it." 22 00:01:05,776 --> 00:01:07,875 But recently, the internet has been moving in a different direction... 23 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:11,938 Increasingly instead of a resilient web of smaller websites 24 00:01:11,938 --> 00:01:15,467 we have larger, more centralized sites 25 00:01:15,467 --> 00:01:18,935 This has several problems. 26 00:01:18,935 --> 00:01:21,938 For one thing, the more centralized the web becomes, 27 00:01:21,938 --> 00:01:25,234 the easier it is for organizations to automate censorship, 28 00:01:25,234 --> 00:01:27,736 either via the centralized host directly, 29 00:01:27,736 --> 00:01:31,341 or even through the pressures of external institutions. 30 00:01:31,341 --> 00:01:36,639 In such a system, the internet can't route around damage any more. 31 00:01:36,639 --> 00:01:40,433 Things are much more fragile generally, too. 32 00:01:40,433 --> 00:01:42,734 In a more decentralized web, 33 00:01:42,734 --> 00:01:45,036 if one node goes out, the whole system lives on. 34 00:01:45,036 --> 00:01:47,903 But what if everyone's photos were on Flickr 35 00:01:47,903 --> 00:01:52,141 and it disappeared? What would happen if YouTube went away? 36 00:01:52,141 --> 00:01:55,170 What would happen to cat videos on the internet? 37 00:01:55,170 --> 00:01:59,264 It would be like a cat massacre. 38 00:01:59,264 --> 00:02:03,806 This leads to a Sad Internet. 39 00:02:03,806 --> 00:02:04,588 This is why we're building MediaGoblin. 40 00:02:04,588 --> 00:02:07,732 MediaGoblin is devoted to freedom and putting power back into the hands of users. 41 00:02:07,732 --> 00:02:11,821 It's a GNU project because we care a lot about freedom. 42 00:02:11,821 --> 00:02:17,234 And there's a lot of stuff we've done that's cool. 43 00:02:17,234 --> 00:02:20,803 We have support for all different types of media.. 44 00:02:20,803 --> 00:02:22,435 ...and support for more could happen soon! 45 00:02:22,435 --> 00:02:25,140 We have theming so you can make it look any way you want. 46 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:29,257 We have OpenStreetMap Support, so you can see where your pictures were taken! 47 00:02:29,257 --> 00:02:32,600 We have commenting and other things that web users are used to. 48 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:34,986 It's real software, you can run it yourself! 49 00:02:34,986 --> 00:02:37,373 Over the last year and a half, we have had over 50 contributors 50 00:02:37,373 --> 00:02:41,367 and have made several significant releases 51 00:02:41,367 --> 00:02:45,042 This is exciting times! 52 00:02:45,042 --> 00:02:45,542 But we need your help! 53 00:02:45,542 --> 00:02:48,300 MediaGoblin has come a long way, 54 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:48,800 but there's a lot more it really needs 55 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,404 so it can be the best media hosting option that there is. 56 00:02:52,404 --> 00:02:55,777 Most noticeably, we need federation. 57 00:02:55,777 --> 00:02:57,934 Federation is how email works: 58 00:02:57,934 --> 00:03:00,245 you and your friends might be on entirely different servers 59 00:03:00,245 --> 00:03:03,433 but emailing between them feels like they're on the same thing. 60 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:06,133 We want media hosting to work the same way. 61 00:03:06,133 --> 00:03:09,735 StatusNet, the federated microblog service 62 00:03:09,735 --> 00:03:12,470 has paved the way for a lot of the functionality we'll need... 63 00:03:12,470 --> 00:03:15,302 but serving up video, sound and images 64 00:03:15,302 --> 00:03:19,033 has it's own thorny problems and that's why we need your help. 65 00:03:19,033 --> 00:03:22,403 We have awesome programmers, and we know how to build this stuff! 66 00:03:22,403 --> 00:03:24,637 But MediaGoblin needs dedicated resources 67 00:03:24,637 --> 00:03:27,534 so the project can get the attention it needs. 68 00:03:27,534 --> 00:03:30,981 This is also known as the "coders gotta eat" problem. 69 00:03:30,981 --> 00:03:33,970 We have a great roadmap and we want you to pitch in some money 70 00:03:33,970 --> 00:03:37,580 so we can hire our talented developers and designers 71 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:40,201 to build the pieces MediaGoblin needs 72 00:03:40,201 --> 00:03:42,242 to reach its full awesome potential. 73 00:03:42,242 --> 00:03:44,569 Developers are standing by, 74 00:03:44,569 --> 00:03:47,572 ready to give us their hours, but we need your support. 75 00:03:47,572 --> 00:03:49,000 Thank you for listening. 76 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,467 Please support MediaGoblin 77 00:03:50,467 --> 00:03:55,037 and help us make the world's most beautiful media publishing future come true!