User:Joar/Word-of-Mouth

This should be considered a window into my thought process on taking over the world with the means of free software. It might be rough and unfiltered.

– I would not cite anything from here for anything other than anecdotal reference, since anything may be subject to revision.

Spreading MediaGoblin
How does one spread MediaGoblin?


 * Talking to people - This is probably the best one.
 * Providing media distribution functionality to make MediaGoblin pass media on to proprietary solutions like Flickr, deviantART, (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter).

Media distribution and promotion of MediaGoblin
This is not intended as a core feature for MediaGoblin but rather as pluggable functionality.

This tool may help an artist's move from X to MediaGoblin, as her old audience at X would still receive both updates and a reference to the artist's new publishing tool.

[Flickr]           joar[M] --- Happy GNU Year! Sets .--.  .--. |  x*O'o       |   |[ ][ ]| | (\'___/)    |   `--' |   ( 0 0 )    |   CC-BY-SA |   (O O)  ,* | |    ===__[ ] |    [ ][ ] `--' - posted from MediaGoblin

In the cases of Flickr, devianART, Facebook and YouTube the media could be posted via the platform's API. Promotion of media goblin could be placed in media descriptions. There are some pitfalls with this, and if it isn't done properly, it may have a negative effect.

In the cases of Facebook (again) and Twitter we could simply post an update via the platform's API, which contains the title and a link to the media page.

cwebber: Happy GNU Year - http://mediagoblin.com/u/cwebber/m/happy-gnu-year/ Like Comment  Retweet - 2012-01-01 from GNU MediaGoblin

The above example should be taken figuratively.

Ease of transition
Established artists may already have an account on a proprietary solution, this may include


 * Media
 * Comments
 * Network (friends, followers, groups)

to ease the transition, one could provide easy tools (see Requirements on tech-savyness of instance administrators) to import existing media and media metadata from the proprietary solution into MediaGoblin.

Following the deployment documentation
Debian, Fedora dependencies are covered in the documentation.
 * Run GNU/Linux, any distribution
 * Basic knowledge of the CLI
 * Basic knowledge of configuration files & syntax