===================== Intro and quick pitch ===================== [DEB SPEAKING] - For just over a year we've been building an exciting new project for the web called GNU MediaGoblin [MASCOT + LOGO HERE] - MediaGoblin is a media publishing system for hosting audio, video, images, and more. [SHOW SOFTWARE, GALLERY?] - It's free software, and anyone can run it. [SWITCH TO INDIVIDUAL MEDIA ENTRY SCREENSHOT] ... and customize it. [QUICKLY SHOW 2-3 OTHERLY THEMED INSTANCES] - It can do a lot of cool things, including supporting multiple media types, from images [IMAGE VIEW] - ... to videos [VIDEO VIEW] - ... to audio [AUDIO VIEW, MAYBE LIGHTLY PLAYING IN BACKGROUND] - This means you can have all your media in one place. - It's also built for extensibility. You can add entirely new media types, even something crazy like ascii art. Why not? [ASCII ART VIEW] ==== NEW TEXT ==== - MediaGoblin is heading in awesome directions to help make the web a more beautiful place. But we need YOUR help to make it happen! [I WANT YOU GAVROCHE] ================== =========== The problem =========== # Seem to be swapping "internet" and "web" a lot here... [CHRIS SPEAKING] - The internet and the web were designed to be decentralized [ANIMATION STARTS, SHOWS NETWORK OF NODES] - This is great, because it enables a global and diverse voice. [SOME OF THE NODES PASS "PULSES" ALONG TO EACH OTHER OR SOMETHING] - It's also very resilient; if one server goes down for whatever reason, the internet still exists. To quote John Gilmore, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." [SHOW ONE NODE FIZZLING OUT, REST OF NODES "REARRANGE"] - But recently, the internet has been moving in a different direction... [TRANSITION TO ONE LARGE CIRCLE WITH SMALLER NODES ATTACHED AROUND THE PERIPHERAL] - Increasingly instead of a resilient web of smaller websites we have larger, more centralized sites [LARGE NODE PULSING? SMALLER NODES SEEM TO BE JUST PULSING TO THE BIG NODE, CLEARLY NOT COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER DIRECTLY] - This has several problems. For one thing, the more centralized the web becomes, the easier it is for organizations to automate censorship, either via the centralized host directly, or even through the pressures of external institutions. [SOME "POLICE" NODE/CIRCLES SWEEP IN FROM THE SIDE, SCANNING AND TARGETING NODES, AND BEEP ANGRILY WITH RED BEAMS AT CERTAIN NODES, THOSE NODES DISAPPEAR] - In such a system, the internet can't route around damage any more. - Things are much more fragile generally, too. In a more decentralized web, if one node goes out, the whole system lives on. But what if *everyone's* photos were on Flickr and it disappeared? What would happen if YouTube went away? What would happen to cat videos on the internet? It would be like a cat massacre. [CENTER "BIG" NODE FLICKERS OUT, ALL CHILDREN NODES DO AS WELL] - This leads to a Sad Internet. [WORDS "SAD INTERNET" WITH DRAWINGS OF SAD LOOKING KITTENS] ## Possibly risky to mention exactly # # - This isn't an imaginary problem. Blah blah youtube NASA takedown. # [IMAGE OF YOUTUBE TAKEDOWN SCREENSHOT?] # # - Blah blah Geocities might have seemed like a joke before it shut # down, but in the late 90s many people cut the teeth on web # authoring and set up custom sites. It seemed like it was a staple # of the internet, but finally, Geocities went away. # And if geocities went away, couldn't anything else? # [MAYBE SOME SCREENSHOTS OF GEOCITIES, AND SOMETHING RELEVANT TO ITS # TAKEDOWN] # # - When we are at the hands of a few large services like this, if they # start to do awful things like censorship or are even coerced into # doing so by external forces, or if they do other things we don't # like, the average user can't just login and fix a large central service. # [IMAGE OF THE WORD "PROBLEM", (PSEUDO-LESSIG-STYLE)] - Can we return user freedom to network services, and media hosting specifically? [A BIG QUESTION MARK, OR MAYBE "SOLUTION?" (PSEUDO-LESSIG-STYLE)] ============ The Solution ============ - [CUT TO VIDEO OF DEB TALKING] - This is why we're building MediaGoblin. MediaGoblin is devoted to freedom and putting power back into the hands of users. It's a GNU project because we care, alot about freedom. - Something something something - And there's a lot of stuff we've done that's cool. - We have support for all different types of media.. [SOMEONE CLICKING AROUND A MEDIAGOBLIN INSTANCE, LOOKING AT PHOTOS, LOOKING AT VIDEOS] ...and support for more could happen soon! - We have theming so you can make it look any way *you* want. [SHOW THE THEMING THING] - We have OpenStreetMap Support, so you can see where your pictures were taken! [SWITCH TO AN OPENSTREETMAP VIEW?] - We have commenting and other things that web users are used to. [SCREENCAST OR SCREENSHOT OF SOMEONE COMMENTING] - It's real software, you can run it yourself! [SOMEONE STARTING UP A SERVER?? NOT SURE. COULD BE CONTINUING THE CLICKING AROUND THING] - Over the last year and a half, we have had over 50 contributors and have made several significant releases [PAN THROUGH THE MEDIAGOBLIN BLOG, LOOKING AT DIFFERENT RELEASE POSTS INCLUDING RELEASE ART AND SCREENSHOTS JUST SHOW THE RELEASE ARTWORK AND SWITCH FROM ONE TO ANOTHER OF THE RELEASE ~POSTERS] - This is exciting times! - [CUT TO VIDEO OF CHRIS SPEAKING] - But we need your help! MediaGoblin has come a long way, but there's a lot more it really needs so it can be the best media hosting option that there is. - Most noticably, we need federation. Federation is how email works: you and your friends might be on entirely different servers but emailing between them feels like they're on the same thing. We want media hosting to work the same way. [SOME IMAGE OF EMAIL PASSING FROM SOMETHING TO SOMETHING] - StatusNet, the federated microblog service has paved the way for *a lot* of the functionality we'll need... but serving up video, sound and images has it's own thorny problems and that's why we need your help. [SHOW PEOPLE COMMUNICATING OVER IDENTI.CA / STATUS.NET] - We have awesome programmers, and we know how to build this stuff! But MediaGoblin needs dedicated resources so the project can get the attention it needs. [SHOW VIDEO OF JOAR HACKING] - This is also known as the "coders gotta eat" problem. [SHOW VIDEO OF JOAR EATING] [SWITCH TO DEB TALKING] - We have a great roadmap and we want you to pitch in some money so we can hire our talented developers and designers to build the pieces MediaGoblin needs to reach its full awesome potential. [SHOW PUZZLE WITH COMPLETED PIECES AS WELL AS THE PIECES THAT NEED TO BE FILLED IN] - Think about how much a truly free and decentralized web is worth to you. The time is now. Developers are standing by, ready to give us their hours, but we need your support. [SHOW DONATE PAGE / BUTTON] - Thank you for listening. Please support MediaGoblin and help us make the world's most beautiful media publishing future come true! [SHOW GAVROCHE HOLDING A "SUPPORT MEDIAGOBLIN" SIGN]