Re: Hosting needed for MediaGoblin project video files

[Ben Sturmfels]

Hi Jim,

Given the relatively small size of the videos and that the campaign was
some years back, I don't think it would be a big deal to host them on
mediagoblin.org along the the other campaign assets. Would that help?

Regards,
Ben

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Jim Campbell wrote:

> Thanks for the replies, all. I'm speaking with someone who may be willing to 
> take over the hosting while keeping them in their current spot on the 
> Rackspace cloud (the cost is trivial, and they want to continue hosting 
> something else on Rackspace).
>
> I'll provide an update in the next week or so.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020, at 9:07 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
>> Jim Campbell wrote:
>> > Might someone from the MediaGoblin community be willing to host these 
>> > files?
>> 
>> Upload them to archive.org. You can get an account there gratis, host 
>> the files 
>> gratis, and archive.org will distribute verbatim copies of all of them 
>> gratis. You 
>> can link to them using the "download" permalink URL 
>> (http://archive.org/download/[identifier]/[filename] where you choose 
>> the identifier 
>> and filename). Anyone can embed them in a webpage in the 
>> standards-compliant way via 
>> the HTML5 video and audio elements using the same permalink.
>> 
>> The archive.org client
>> https://blog.archive.org/2019/06/05/the-ia-client-the-swiss-army-knife-of-internet-archive/
>> 
>> How archive.org items are structured
>> https://blog.archive.org/2011/03/31/how-archive-org-items-are-structured/
>> 
>> 
>>

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