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GNU MediaGoblin wiki of bizarre and unusual things

In this wiki you will find beasts the likes of which you have never laid eyes on before! Expand your imagination, ladies and gentlemen, and examine the errata in this corpus of knowledge. May it transform you and let you see the world in a new light forevermore.

Want to contribute to GNU MediaGoblin?

This section provides the magical incantations to help you start contributing.

• Development quick start - Get MediaGoblin running on your own machine
• Contributor HOWTO - Want to start contributing to MediaGoblin? General tips are available here.

Hacking MediaGoblin

• Hacking - Get your computer set up to hack on GNU MediaGoblin.
  • Beginner's Corner - Resources for those who are new to Python, MongoDB, or Git.
  • We'll be adding some distribution/OS specific hacking guides as separate pages soon.
• Contributing patches via git
• Templating - How our templating structure is set up

Deploying MediaGoblin

• Configuration - Learn about MediaGoblin configuration files and file options.
• Deployment - General deployment advice
• Virtual_Machine_Hosting - Deploy your own publicly available MediaGoblin server using Amazon's free EC2 tier.

Want to try out GNU MediaGoblin?

• If you want to run your own server to test the best information is currently in the HackingHowto
• There's info on a server you can test on our User Experience page

Testing and Release Guidelines

• Unit Tests - all about the unit tests
• User Experience - user experience testing. Includes link to an instance you can try!
• Release Process - covers the release process

Documentation and Translations

• ManualStandards - covers the standards for writing the user manual
• Translations - How to translate stuff or update the translations

Inner workings of the secret sanctum (Contacting the team)

• IRC meeting logs
• IRCBot - covers our irc bot

Technical Considerations

• DesignDecisions - covers design decisions (FIXME - this needs to be split up)
• Storage - How MediaGoblin's internal storage system works.
• Processing - What happens after you submit your image/video/etc? Processing! More about that.
• Scaling Down - Minimizing MediaGoblin's resource requirements
• External Library Policy - covers use of external libraries

Project Miscellany

• A video with Chris Webber talking about MediaGoblin at ChiPy
• User:Cwebber/braindumps - Chris Webber's braindumps (you can help refactoring these into real sections of the site!)