WEBVTT 00:00:01.033 --> 00:00:03.301 For just over a year we've been building 00:00:03.301 --> 00:00:06.333 an exciting new project for the web called GNU MediaGoblin 00:00:06.333 --> 00:00:09.104 MediaGoblin is a media publishing system 00:00:09.104 --> 00:00:13.698 for hosting audio, video, images, and more. 00:00:13.698 --> 00:00:15.533 It's free software, and anyone can run it. 00:00:15.533 --> 00:00:17.168 ... and customize it. 00:00:17.168 --> 00:00:20.573 It can do a lot of cool things, including supporting multiple media types, 00:00:20.573 --> 00:00:24.498 from images, to videos, to audio 00:00:24.498 --> 00:00:27.312 This means you can have all your media in one place. 00:00:27.312 --> 00:00:29.441 It's also built for extensibility. 00:00:29.441 --> 00:00:31.674 You can add entirely new media types, 00:00:31.674 --> 00:00:34.967 even something crazy like ascii art. Why not? 00:00:34.967 --> 00:00:38.240 MediaGoblin is heading in awesome directions 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:40.237 to help make the web a more beautiful place. 00:00:40.237 --> 00:00:42.501 But we need YOUR help to make it happen! 00:00:42.501 --> 00:00:45.969 The internet and the web were designed to be decentralized 00:00:45.969 --> 00:00:51.367 This is great, because it enables a global and diverse voice. 00:00:51.367 --> 00:00:56.967 It's also very resilient; if one server goes down for whatever reason, 00:00:56.967 --> 00:00:59.170 the internet still exists. 00:00:59.170 --> 00:01:03.705 To quote John Gilmore, "The Net interprets censorship as damage 00:01:03.705 --> 00:01:05.776 and routes around it." 00:01:05.776 --> 00:01:07.875 But recently, the internet has been moving in a different direction... 00:01:07.875 --> 00:01:11.938 Increasingly instead of a resilient web of smaller websites 00:01:11.938 --> 00:01:15.467 we have larger, more centralized sites 00:01:15.467 --> 00:01:18.935 This has several problems. 00:01:18.935 --> 00:01:21.938 For one thing, the more centralized the web becomes, 00:01:21.938 --> 00:01:25.234 the easier it is for organizations to automate censorship, 00:01:25.234 --> 00:01:27.736 either via the centralized host directly, 00:01:27.736 --> 00:01:31.341 or even through the pressures of external institutions. 00:01:31.341 --> 00:01:36.639 In such a system, the internet can't route around damage any more. 00:01:36.639 --> 00:01:40.433 Things are much more fragile generally, too. 00:01:40.433 --> 00:01:42.734 In a more decentralized web, 00:01:42.734 --> 00:01:45.036 if one node goes out, the whole system lives on. 00:01:45.036 --> 00:01:47.903 But what if everyone's photos were on Flickr 00:01:47.903 --> 00:01:52.141 and it disappeared? What would happen if YouTube went away? 00:01:52.141 --> 00:01:55.170 What would happen to cat videos on the internet? 00:01:55.170 --> 00:01:59.264 It would be like a cat massacre. 00:01:59.264 --> 00:02:03.806 This leads to a Sad Internet. 00:02:03.806 --> 00:02:04.588 This is why we're building MediaGoblin. 00:02:04.588 --> 00:02:07.732 MediaGoblin is devoted to freedom and putting power back into the hands of users. 00:02:07.732 --> 00:02:11.821 It's a GNU project because we care a lot about freedom. 00:02:11.821 --> 00:02:17.234 And there's a lot of stuff we've done that's cool. 00:02:17.234 --> 00:02:20.803 We have support for all different types of media.. 00:02:20.803 --> 00:02:22.435 ...and support for more could happen soon! 00:02:22.435 --> 00:02:25.140 We have theming so you can make it look any way you want. 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:29.257 We have OpenStreetMap Support, so you can see where your pictures were taken! 00:02:29.257 --> 00:02:32.600 We have commenting and other things that web users are used to. 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:34.986 It's real software, you can run it yourself! NOTE Paragraph 00:02:34.986 --> 00:02:37.373 Over the last year and a half, we have had over 50 contributors 00:02:37.373 --> 00:02:41.367 and have made several significant releases 00:02:41.367 --> 00:02:45.042 This is exciting times! 00:02:45.042 --> 00:02:45.542 But we need your help! 00:02:45.542 --> 00:02:48.300 MediaGoblin has come a long way, 00:02:48.300 --> 00:02:48.800 but there's a lot more it really needs 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.404 so it can be the best media hosting option that there is. 00:02:52.404 --> 00:02:55.777 Most noticeably, we need federation. 00:02:55.777 --> 00:02:57.934 Federation is how email works: 00:02:57.934 --> 00:03:00.245 you and your friends might be on entirely different servers 00:03:00.245 --> 00:03:03.433 but emailing between them feels like they're on the same thing. 00:03:03.433 --> 00:03:06.133 We want media hosting to work the same way. 00:03:06.133 --> 00:03:09.735 StatusNet, the federated microblog service 00:03:09.735 --> 00:03:12.470 has paved the way for a lot of the functionality we'll need... 00:03:12.470 --> 00:03:15.302 but serving up video, sound and images 00:03:15.302 --> 00:03:19.033 has it's own thorny problems and that's why we need your help. 00:03:19.033 --> 00:03:22.403 We have awesome programmers, and we know how to build this stuff! 00:03:22.403 --> 00:03:24.637 But MediaGoblin needs dedicated resources 00:03:24.637 --> 00:03:27.534 so the project can get the attention it needs. 00:03:27.534 --> 00:03:30.981 This is also known as the "coders gotta eat" problem. 00:03:30.981 --> 00:03:33.970 We have a great roadmap and we want you to pitch in some money 00:03:33.970 --> 00:03:37.580 so we can hire our talented developers and designers 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:40.201 to build the pieces MediaGoblin needs 00:03:40.201 --> 00:03:42.242 to reach its full awesome potential. 00:03:42.242 --> 00:03:44.569 Developers are standing by, 00:03:44.569 --> 00:03:47.572 ready to give us their hours, but we need your support. 00:03:47.572 --> 00:03:49.000 Thank you for listening. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:50.467 Please support MediaGoblin 00:03:50.467 --> 00:03:55.037 and help us make the world's most beautiful media publishing future come true!