http://pubforge.org/pubblog Talking about open source collaboration for public broadcasting Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:19:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cross-posted from Publist I thought I would throw this bit of information out there FWIW. I had been wondering how people were able to get such great meta information into the links and stories that they posted on Facebook, especially when it came to stories from news websites or blogs. I ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/12/08/metadata-for-social-networking-sites/ Earlier this evening I took the following survey (which runs through December 7 and takes about 15-25 minutes to complete): http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11115 And I have to say that, as far as surveys go, this one had the benefit of actually teaching me something about the various shades of creative commons licensing. As public broadcasters, ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/12/04/shades-of-creative-comons-licenses-for-public-broadcasting-content/ (This post began life as an email thread, but maybe needs to be more public so here it is.  Edited and expanded for obsessive clarity...) It strikes me as somewhat simple (OK maybe not exactly simple) to develop a Drupal-based CMS with enough commonly-needed features for public radio/TV stations.  You’d have ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/09/24/pubmedia-cms-feature-request/ Under the category of be careful what you ask for…we created a survey to determine how public radio/TV stations are maintaining their websites, their web staffing levels, technologies, and needs. We wanted to find out about the use of open source tools, and maybe identify development projects that would ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/09/14/pubforge-survey-reveals-liabilities-opportunities/ As I've been reading over the PubForge Open Source Collaboration Survey results (over and over again), I've begun to see between the lines a bit. I don't mean I'm getting dizzy, although that could be true as well. No, I mean that as is often the case, I find myself ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/09/14/survey-results-and-sustainability/ What have we done with the new NPR API? This would be a good place for people to share examples of cool mashups and apps they've devised to tap NPR's open content. Or to suggest ideas on which we could perhaps collaborate. Here's one of mine: What if I ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/08/21/stupid-api-tricks/ Those of us consumed with passion about metadata for A/V objects (and who isn't...) have been excited by the emergence of the PBCore. We present here an update. In our last dramatic PBCore episode, CPB funded a multi-year project to develop a standard for shareable metadata about audio and video productions ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/08/21/the-pbcore-saga-an-update/ PubForge is a non-commercial group of volunteers working to develop a set of collaborative open-source tools to serve the needs of the public broadcasting community. Toward that end, we are surveying station staff, producers, developers and other interested parties to determine what the current state of the art is in ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/07/25/pubforge-open-source-collaboration-survey/ Bill Haenel, Dale Hobson and Jack Brighton at Public Media 2008 (Photo Credit: John Tynan) I've worked as a webmaster in public broadcasting for almost a decade. And over the last several years, I've seen a slow, pragmatic shift towards increased collaboration in online ventures between local public broadcasting stations and ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2008/05/17/radio-engage-collaboration-enlists-participation-leverages-open-source/ Today, in subscribing to the Podcast for PyCon 2008, I noticed this entry: "It almost seems like a joke: a family-owned newspaper in Lawrence, KS (population 80,000) releases an open-source web framework. It's not a joke, of course: today Django is an increasingly popular web development platform. As an open-source community ... http://pubforge.org/pubblog/2007/11/28/rob-curley-2005-ima-conference-keynote-speaker-releases-popular-open-source-platform/