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GNU MediaGoblin wiki of bizarre and unusual things

The MediaGobilin documentation is somewhat always in a state of transition. In the future, documentation about the software, its functioning, and its use/administration, will be in the manual at http://docs.mediagoblin.org/. At the same time, documentation for contributors that relates to project organization, community participation, and forward looking project planning will be here on the wiki. In the meanwhile, it's a mess.

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.
• Documentation quick start - How to contribute to the documentation effort.

Hacking MediaGoblin

• Hacking - Making code contributions to 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.
• Git workflow - How to go about submitting patches via git.
• Templating - How our templating structure is set up

Documentation and Translations

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

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.
• External Library Policy - covers use of external libraries

Deploying MediaGoblin

• Configuration - Learn about MediaGoblin configuration files and file options.
• Deployment - General deployment advice
• Scaling Down - Minimizing MediaGoblin's resource requirements
• 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

Inner workings of the secret sanctum (Contacting the team)

• IRC meeting logs
• IRCBot - covers our irc bot

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!)
• Update the website - Learn how to update mediagoblin.org!