Re: [GMG-Devel] What does it do?

[Joar Wandborg]

MediaGoblin is a python WSGI application and an AMQP task processor.

# The WSGI application...

 runs as one or several processes and can be coupled with an HTTP 
server either directly or via an intermediate FCGI layer.

The WSGI application serves dynamic content over HTTP and is backed by 
any SQL server supported by SQLAlchemy in theory, only PostgreSQL and 
SQLite can be verified to work out of the box by me personally.

The content types currently supported, off the top of my head: video, 
audio, images, 3D models, 'ASCII'/unicode art.

# The AMQP task processor

 can be launched in two ways: Either inside the WSGI application, where 
it will process all tasks synchronously, thus blocking the WSGI 
application process and/or thread until processing and saving of 
processed files are finished - Or as a separate process, fetching tasks 
to process from an intermediate entity (the broker).

The task processor processes media such as images, video, audio, 3D 
models and creates web-compatible files that are shown on the detail 
page for the content.

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I started writing this up on my cellphone while commuting. I thought it 
might be good to finish it. Fixes, additions and elaborations are 
welcome. Feels a bit like it should be on the wikipedia page but not 
perhaps to this detail. One flaw is that I very much focused on the 
application structure whereas I almost completely left out any 
information usable for 'users'.

On 06/25/2013 09:49 AM, Mike Gran wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've read over your website a couple of times and I don't think
> it really explains what your project does.
>
> It says "MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform
> that anyone  can run.  You can think of it as a decentralized
> alternative to  Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
>
> Then on the "take the tour" page it says it shares media, does
> comments, and has a clean look.
>
> While I've figured it out now, the following questions weren't
> obvious from the descriptions...
>
> Is the point that you give it pictures and it makes webpages with
> comment boxes?  How it is different from hosting a blog and
> putting pictures in a blog, then?
>
> How do you give it pictures?  Does it look for pictures on your
> computer?
>
> Does it have a standalone webserver in it? or do you have to
> somehow set it up to run in Apache, like you would if you downloaded
> a blogging engine?
>
> Anyway, just FYI that it seems like some remedial information is
> missing.
>
> -Mike
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