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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 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

Want to hack on GNU MediaGoblin?

Hacking and Deploying MediaGoblin

• HackingHowto - generally covers getting set up for hacking on GNU MediaGoblin
  • FIXME - add distribution/OS specific hacking guides as separate pages here
• Configure MediaGoblin - how to configure MediaGoblin for all your local needs.
• Deployment - How to run your own publicly available MediaGoblin server
  • Virtual Machine Hosting - using Amazon's free EC2 tier

Testing and Release Guidelines

• UnitTests - all about the unit tests
• User Experience - user experience testing. Includes link to an instance you can try!
• ReleaseProcess - 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)
• 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!)