Plumi 3.0 Beta2 is a fully functional release of Plumi built on Plone 3.3.4. Plumi is a free software video sharing platform. Plumi 3.0 Beta2 enables all the features previously available with Plumi 0.2.3 and includes some additional enhancements and bug fixes listed below. A 3.0-Final release will follow in the coming weeks.
The release can be downloaded at http://plone.org/products/plumi/releases/3.0-Beta2 or you can access the release via svn. We’d love to have people testing the beta2 to assist with the progression through a Release Candidate version and on to the final production release. If you find any issues in testing please report them via the Plumi Trac.
A development version of the beta2 can be viewed at http://latest-v.plumi.org
Plumi 3.0 Beta2 includes the following fixes and feature additions
- upgraded to latest Plone stable release 3.3.4
- auto-creation of a thumbnail image from the uploaded video
- large file uploads – integrated FTP support (previously available but not packaged with 0.2.3)
- Built-in blob support to improve large file handling
- New, more stable and configurable transcoding framework (Transcode Daemon)
- html5 support
- Social networking – ability to find people based on their location or their interest in genres, activities & media formats
- Indonesian translation of Plumi and Plone interface
- Built-in content translation via linguaplone
- Increased flash player size and quality
- Ability to add related items, location information and language when publishing a video
- Updated flowplayer
- Auto-notifications on retraction or rejection of content
- New cleaner design
- Fixed the content licensing UI error
- Date of release can start from 1960
- All countries are now included in taxonomy by default
- Ajaxification of commenting including profile thumbnails associated with comments
These features are in addition to the out of box new features in Plone 3.0 such as:
- content ratings
- dashboard to list your content and add rss feeds
- Inline editing
- easier collaboration and sharing of content with other site members
Plumi 3 Beta2 release has been made possible thanks to the work of EngageMedia, Unweb.me, Mahiti, Andy Nicholson and Victor Rajewski.
