[p2pu-dev] attachments/uploads?

[Jessica Ledbetter]

If it's a PDF, have a thumbnail of the first page? Video is a thumbnail of
the first frame? Probably can do that. I'm guessing the Python Imaging
Library (PIL) would do that. I did something similar in ColdFusion so
probably similar method.

Oh, look at me hijack... The mockup that Joao did for resources had
thumbnails more of what the link was (PDF, Web), but maybe something like
this would be better. Thinking longterm, here, since we'll have the resource
list before storage, probably.

http://p2pu.lighthouseapp.com/projects/71002/tickets/381-add-resource-summaries-above-activity-stream

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Rebecca Kahn <bekka.kahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for Jessica.
> Also, it does make things a bit more complicated in terms of copyright if
> we allow for uploads.
>
> That said, it was something that came up quite a few times on the old site
> - organisers did want to upload various materials.
> Would it be really hard to (and this is a non-tecchie asking so forgive me)
> make a thumbnail appear alongside a link, like it does on Facebook? Visually
> a bit more interesting than just a hyperlink...
>
> B
>
>
> On 1 June 2011 15:30, Jessica Ledbetter <jessica at jessicaledbetter.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>> --
>>> contact info:
>>> http://www.johndbritton.com
>>> @johndbritton - http://twitter.com/johndbritton
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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