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Site Updates and Upgrades

by andrewl — last modified 2007-04-01 22:20

EngageMedia has been busy the last couple of months fixing lots of bugs, adding new features and upgrading to the latest version of Plone, the content management system our site runs on. We also moved to a bigger and faster server, making navigating and getting your video from the site a more pleasurable experience.

We've updated with new fixes and enhancements including:

  • images now appear on news items on the front page
  • display issues where the design was not showing correctly in Safari are now fixed
  • The Kupu WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor is now the default editor, making it easier to format your postings
  • we've added direct links to publish news and events on the initial logged in page, this should make these items easier to post

We've made a series of behind the scenes bug fixes you won't notice so readily and also upgraded from Plone 2.1 to 2.5. Geeks who want more information about changes and improvement in Plone 2.5 can check them out here
http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/2.5

Additional features we are planning to implement over the coming few months include

  • new content licensing features including Creative Commons 3.0 licenses and the ability to specify Public Domain or the GNU Free documentation license.
  • automatic creation of a flash video version of your video and the ability to embed it in your blog , similar to YouTube
  • automatic creation and seeding of your videos via BitTorrent
  • tagging
  • enhanced calendar functionality

In June we'll release the EngageMedia video platform as a package for others to take up and use. For more information visit our tech page
http://engagemedia.org/tech

If you find any bugs in the site please let us know, were always looking to make improvements. If you are interested in following what we are working on please see our tracker
http://trac.engagemedia.org/projects/report/3

Making all this happen takes time and money, if you are interested in helping us out, please see our support page
http://engagemedia.org/support-us

All the best.
The EngageMedia team

Copyright 2007, by the contributing author. Cite/attribute Resource. andrewl. (2007, March 27). Site Updates and Upgrades. Retrieved July 05, 2009, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/andrewl/news/site-updates-and-upgrades. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License