An ongoing series of lessons, sessions, and workshops on Drupal media and arts.
Goals and Objectives
- Showcase how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.
- Bridge the gap between the geek world and the real world (who mostly don't know the world beyond MySpace).
- Demonstrate how artists can leverage new technologies and reach an audience without having to compromise their art.
- Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the modules available and the ways they are being used
- See how producers and media organizations are leveraging Drupal.
- Learn about the future of multimedia in Drupal
- Help transform multimedia handling for Drupal.
- Increase collaboration & relationships between users and stakeholders with similar goals (join forces in collaboratively generating the resources necessary to push this work forward!)
- Increase collaboration & relationships between developers working on the modules (more unity, opportunity through code sprints to integrate various patches/functionality we've got locked up on individual sites, clearer vision for moving forward)
Sessions
Would you like to lead a session? Submit it here and reference it below.
- Media Sprint Recap - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18159
- Media Sprint at Zivtech - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18485
- Embedded Media Field Provider Tutorial - http://groups.drupal.org/node/19876
- 8Tracks & Emfield - http://groups.drupal.org/node/20381
- Media Sprint Progress report - http://groups.drupal.org/node/20506
- Using Embedded Media Field in conjunction with Imagecache - http://groups.drupal.org/node/32762
Lesson and session ideas
Cover concepts such as module set-up, to intermediate techniques such as creating views, to advanced methods such as writing jQuery and custom modules.
Media File Streams
- PHP Stream Wrappers http://www.php.net/stream_wrapper_register
- Media API http://drupal.org/node/356802
- http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/media-sprint-2009
Images
- Image or Image Field?
- Inline images, galleries, teaser thumbnails
- Scaling & cropping on the fly
- Styling Views, drop-shadows, and more
- jCarousel Slide Shows
Video
- Local or external video?
- Media Mover and Asset management
- Embedded Media Field: Provider Tutorial
- File Field, jQuery Media, and more
Audio
- What player to use?
- Embedding audio clips
- Playlist creation
- Creating embed code & more
APIs and mashups
- Building APIs - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/building-apis-rock
- Building Your Site With WebAPIs - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/promiscuous-drupal-building-your-sit...
- Drupal in the cloud - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-cloud
- Leveraging semantic web services - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/using-intelligent-web-services-seman...
- Google map mashups - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/google-maps-mashups-10-minutes
Industry specific case studies and showcases
Musicians
- Showcase Drupal websites from small personal sites through to large band sites.
- What features that are useful for musicians?
- What makes up a good album/track page - explore the various options we have to build an album page with the ability to play individual tracks as well as the complete album/playlist.
- Pull from an online music database for artist and discography info - http://groups.drupal.org/node/4404
- Options on displaying media (Video, Photos, Audio)
- Create a custom user profile for musicians
Podcasting and radio
- Showcase Drupal websites from individual podcasters to radio stations
- What features that are useful for podcasters, DJs, and radio stations?
- Options on displaying media (Video, Photos, Audio)
- Create a custom user profile for podcasters
Filmmakers/vloggers
- Showcase Drupal websites from individual vloggers to video sharing communities
- What features are useful for filmmakers and vloggers?
- Options for displaying video (playlists, galleries, embedding)
- How to build a site like Youtube on Drupal
- Create a custom user profile for vloggers and filmmakers
Photographers/visual artists
- Showcase Drupal websites from individual photographers to photo sharing services
- What features are useful for photographers?
- Options for displaying photo galleries
- How to build a site like Flickr on Drupal
- Create a custom user profile for photographers
Projects, Tasks and Initiatives
see this wiki - http://groups.drupal.org/node/21903