Lot of stuff has happened since the last status report, but there
are four things of note:
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Sheila is now a co-admin of pyvideo.org. She has been for a couple of
months. I need to update the site to reflect this.
I'm really psyched about this. It's a ton of work and I'm just not
managing it well. Splitting the work should make it more manageable.
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Back in July, Sheila poked me about a tweet Jesse wrote suggesting
Rackspace was interested in sponsoring Open Source projects. She
contacted Jesse and set everything up.
I'm psyched that Rackspace agreed to sponsor
pyvideo.org by providing free hosting. Several months later, I moved
pyvideo.org from where it was before to a vm at Rackspace.
I'm really excited about this! It makes a bunch of problems that I
was trying to figure out what to do about go away.
Thank you, Rackspace!
I need to update the site to reflect this.
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Sheila discovered that blip.tv was expiring a bunch of accounts that
held conference videos and that those videos would go away. She and I
scrambled to download all the files from blip and move them to Rackspace
cloudfiles. It's about 600 videos and around 250gb of data.
In the process of doing that, we saved videos for DjangoCon EU 2010,
DjangoCon EU 2011 and PyGotham 2012. I added these to pyvideo.org today.
These videos have pages that are stubs with no metadata. I've got that
in my queue of things to fix.
Also, the thumbnails for all the videos on blip.tv are on my laptop which
isn't very helpful. I need to move those and update the videos in
pyvideo.org.
As a side note, if we didn't have hosting from Rackspace, we'd have been
totally screwed. Thank you, Jesse Noller and Rackspace!
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I've been working on the richard
codebase fixing architectural problems, reducing the complexities
and trying to clean it up so it's in a better state. That work is
almost done. When it is, I'll update pyvideo.org with the new site.
At this rate, I think I can finish the work this year, but that assumes
there aren't any more emergencies.
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I've been thinking about how to build a better communication channel
for pyvideo.org so people can more easily follow what's going on so
they can act on things they're interested in.
pyvideo.org has a "site news" section. It's a pain in the ass to use
and it's not syndicated anywhere and it's likely no one sees it.
Blogging status reports like this on my blog is better, but I don't think
my blog is very widely read. Making my blog more widely-read seems
like a lot of work and I'm not sure I can do it effectively anyhow.
So I've decided to ditch the "site news" section of pyvideo.org and
switch to Twitter. I started a @PyvideoOrg
account.
I'll tweet site updates, calls for help and newly posted conferences.
I'm tossing around tweeting new videos when they get posted, but videos
tend to get posted in huge batches and getting > 40 tweets all at once
is a total drag. I'll have to think about that some more.
Follow @PyvideoOrg if you're interested! Also, feel free to tweet at
that account.
I need to update the site to reflect this.
Also, in my life things are pretty crazy. I have a new kid and juggling
everything was impossible for a while. I think that should easy up now and
I can spend more time on pyvideo.org going forward.