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MediaGoblin 0.7.0: Time Traveler's Delight Released

60 points by paroneayea 12y ago

frewsxcv 12y ago
Great job MediaGoblin team! As a side note, this looks like this project could use a little love from the community: https://github.com/vky/docker-mediagoblin https://github.com/vky/docker-mediagoblin
darklajid 12y ago
MediaGoblin is my best bet for my so far open requirement: Have a digital version of the picture books our parents kept for us. I need ACLs (share everything with tag 'kids' with my parents and in-laws for example), a decent presentation, and lots of ways to add metadata to content. MediaGoblin might be the solution, soon.
jwise0 12y ago
Apparently the Sandstorm team [1] recently ported MediaGoblin over, so this is particularly exciting. It looks like the big addition is that they're paving the path for federation, so soon there could well be an actually decentralized media sharing system... [1] Sandstorm is an app sandboxing environment conceived by the designer of Protobuf/Cap'nProto; as an aside, the IndieGogo for Sandstorm is nearly funded, but ends in only 5 days... it was on HN recently, but otherwise, http://sandstorm.io http://sandstorm.io
- higherpurpose 12y ago
  Speaking of Sandstorm, they have 13 percent of their campaign left unfunded, and only 5 days to go. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-cloud-platform https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-clo...
  - buovjaga 12y ago
    A considerable contribution raised the total percentage to 95% after your comment.
- scoggs 12y ago
  I'm not very technical in the knowledge needed to setup sandstorm, I've looked all over for a guide that works for me but I've come up empty. I've tried about 5 or 6 different ways to get things going and I've struck out. Are there any resources out there for extreme beginners or anybody who is willing to help a very interested person out? I'd love to write a guide using the experience of learning from scratch, I've never installed anything like this before and I'm sure I'm not the only one missing out!
  - kentonv 12y ago
    We (sandstorm.io) have work to do on getting the self-hosted install easier. Currently it's easy if you already have a Linux machine: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm#installing-the-easy-way https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm#installing-the-eas... But eventually we should have an installation process or guide that covers setting up a VM as well, for those who don't already run Linux. All that said, we also plan to offer managed Sandstorm hosting for $5/mo starting early next year. This is what you see if you try demo.sandstorm.io. In this case you don't have to do any setup.
    - scoggs 12y ago
      Right, and I'd probably spring for the $5/mo if I just got a more open ended chance to test it. I have ran into the most trouble setting up linux as a new OS and with Virtualbox. I've gotten both installed and then tripped up on getting sandstorm to execute properly. It's a tad frustrating but I have no experience to fall back on and sandstorm hasn't been around long enough to have tons of problems posted w/ fixes online.
      - kentonv 12y ago
        Please feel free to file bugs on Github and/or ask questions on sandstorm-dev! It will help us figure out what most needs improvement. https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev Curious what you mean by "more open ended change to test it". You mean not limited to one hour as demo.sandstorm.io is?
zz1 12y ago
Those interested in MediaGoblin might also find Trovebox interesting. https://github.com/photo https://github.com/photo http://trovebox.com/ http://trovebox.com/ I just hope they are talking to each other to share their federation. Would be dumb not to.
tete 12y ago
Does anyone have experience with running a public mediagoblin? I am not too experienced with Django, but I did some minor, private stuff with it. My problem are registrations of bots (not sure about the intention). There is a recaptcha plugin and I got it running, but it uses its own routes and also has some minor bugs (always showing the required registration data in red). Of course I could have my web server always redirect the routes, but this seems like a hack and doesn't fix the issue. For now I had to turn registrations off. Are there better ways? Mentioned Plugin: https://github.com/ayleph/mediagoblin-recaptcha https://github.com/ayleph/mediagoblin-recaptcha

60 points by paroneayea 12y ago

Great job MediaGoblin team! As a side note, this looks like this project could use a little love from the community: https://github.com/vky/docker-mediagoblin https://github.com/vky/docker-mediagoblin

darklajid 12y ago

MediaGoblin is my best bet for my so far open requirement: Have a digital version of the picture books our parents kept for us. I need ACLs (share everything with tag 'kids' with my parents and in-laws for example), a decent presentation, and lots of ways to add metadata to content. MediaGoblin might be the solution, soon.

jwise0 12y ago

Apparently the Sandstorm team [1] recently ported MediaGoblin over, so this is particularly exciting. It looks like the big addition is that they're paving the path for federation, so soon there could well be an actually decentralized media sharing system... [1] Sandstorm is an app sandboxing environment conceived by the designer of Protobuf/Cap'nProto; as an aside, the IndieGogo for Sandstorm is nearly funded, but ends in only 5 days... it was on HN recently, but otherwise, http://sandstorm.io http://sandstorm.io

higherpurpose 12y ago
Speaking of Sandstorm, they have 13 percent of their campaign left unfunded, and only 5 days to go. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-cloud-platform https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sandstorm-io-personal-clo...
- buovjaga 12y ago
  A considerable contribution raised the total percentage to 95% after your comment.
scoggs 12y ago
I'm not very technical in the knowledge needed to setup sandstorm, I've looked all over for a guide that works for me but I've come up empty. I've tried about 5 or 6 different ways to get things going and I've struck out. Are there any resources out there for extreme beginners or anybody who is willing to help a very interested person out? I'd love to write a guide using the experience of learning from scratch, I've never installed anything like this before and I'm sure I'm not the only one missing out!
- kentonv 12y ago
  We (sandstorm.io) have work to do on getting the self-hosted install easier. Currently it's easy if you already have a Linux machine: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm#installing-the-easy-way https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm#installing-the-eas... But eventually we should have an installation process or guide that covers setting up a VM as well, for those who don't already run Linux. All that said, we also plan to offer managed Sandstorm hosting for $5/mo starting early next year. This is what you see if you try demo.sandstorm.io. In this case you don't have to do any setup.
  - scoggs 12y ago
    Right, and I'd probably spring for the $5/mo if I just got a more open ended chance to test it. I have ran into the most trouble setting up linux as a new OS and with Virtualbox. I've gotten both installed and then tripped up on getting sandstorm to execute properly. It's a tad frustrating but I have no experience to fall back on and sandstorm hasn't been around long enough to have tons of problems posted w/ fixes online.
    - kentonv 12y ago
      Please feel free to file bugs on Github and/or ask questions on sandstorm-dev! It will help us figure out what most needs improvement. https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev https://groups.google.com/group/sandstorm-dev Curious what you mean by "more open ended change to test it". You mean not limited to one hour as demo.sandstorm.io is?

zz1 12y ago

Those interested in MediaGoblin might also find Trovebox interesting. https://github.com/photo https://github.com/photo http://trovebox.com/ http://trovebox.com/ I just hope they are talking to each other to share their federation. Would be dumb not to.

tete 12y ago

Does anyone have experience with running a public mediagoblin? I am not too experienced with Django, but I did some minor, private stuff with it. My problem are registrations of bots (not sure about the intention). There is a recaptcha plugin and I got it running, but it uses its own routes and also has some minor bugs (always showing the required registration data in red). Of course I could have my web server always redirect the routes, but this seems like a hack and doesn't fix the issue. For now I had to turn registrations off. Are there better ways? Mentioned Plugin: https://github.com/ayleph/mediagoblin-recaptcha https://github.com/ayleph/mediagoblin-recaptcha