[p2pu-dev] attachments/uploads?

[Jessy Kate Schingler]

good points... i think maybe we need to identify a broader strategy since it
affects our primary goals (re-usability of content) but also has legal
implications and technical work involved. there will also be costs-- whether
hosting with s3 or with ourselves, what happens as that gets really big?

i can't imagine us *not* having uploads as a "self-respective modern web
property" :) however, i agree that's easier said than done.

re-useability: do we agree that at least having an option to upload to a
p2pu data store of some kind is important for re-useability?
legal: i believe most sites get around this by having a legal disclaimer,
and removing any uploaded items which are found to break any  laws/policies.
costs: s3 is possible and very common these days; also i wonder if OSUOSL
would provide storage? but in the short term i believe (correct me if i'm
wrong) that we have available storage on our linodes?
development: i think this is relatively straightforward.

Jessy
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On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Jessica Ledbetter <
jessica at jessicaledbetter.com> wrote:

> 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.
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>>>> 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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>>>>>
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