[p2pu-dev] attachments/uploads?

[Jessica Ledbetter]

I'm not sure of the timeline.

One of the good things about storing videos offsite is that people might
find them and follow them to the course on P2PU :) Would be nice to
integrate things more tightly though and not worry if something moves or
someone closes his/her account on youtube.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:12 AM, James Tatum <jtatum at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for S3 (although it's not a CDN :)
>
> Linodes are great but the disk resources are their biggest weakness. One
> thing that will be tricky about the proposed solution is development. We'll
> have to work our backing store model so that devs can use either local
> storage or S3 for development.
>
> I see there is at least one library that does this kind of abstraction.
> django-filetransfers (which does async S3, that's important). With that it
> seems we'll be able to pick a storage engine in settings.py, which would
> rock.
>
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 8:15 PM, John Britton wrote:
>
> Once we start accepting uploads we'll have to deal with limitations (size,
> filetype, etc) because hosting the files might prove to be technically
> challenging (bandwidth, storage). One possible solution would be to use a
> CDN (like Amazon S3) for uploaded files.
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>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jessy Kate Schingler <jessy at jessykate.com
> > wrote:
>
>> hey guys,
>>
>> what's the current thinking on the dev timeline for supporting uploads or
>> attachments? this seems useful not just as an option for participants to
>> host stuff, but also important for re-usability of courses. right now i can
>> point to a url but not attach.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> Jessy
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