Support MediaGoblin! Help us take back the net!
Update: This campaign was concluded successfully in 2014. Thanks for your support!
GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing system for the web. It's a freedom-respecting replacement for sites like Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Thingiverse. We've come pretty far, but we need you to join our goblin force and help us take back the net!
NOTE: The campaign is officially over, and a success! You can still donate to help us out (always appreciated!) but you cannot select the rewards. Thanks for your support, everyone!
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- Federation: Connect and share with friends and family even if you're on different MediaGoblin sites! We'll be adding federation support via the Pump API.
- 1.0 release: The release we've all been waiting for! Get all the original main features planned for MediaGoblin wrapped up and pushed out to the public!
- Podcast support: User-subscribable podcast links to your video and audio content!
- Private media sharing: Control who can see what! Maybe everyone should see your artwork, but you just want your family and close friends to see your baby photos.
- PyPump: Why stop at federation for just MediaGoblin? At this level, we'll invest resources directly into improving the awesome PyPump library to spread federation across the Python web development world.
- [UNLOCK] Premium hosting reward! If we hit 60k, we'll add a new reward option: premium hosting!
- +1 donor-voted feature! We'll open a poll for what feature donors want. You, the people, get to decide what's most important!
- Easier deployment: OpenShift support! Super-easy deployment on the free software platform-as-a-service system, OpenShift!
- Easier deployment: better packaging! MediaGoblin packages for major GNU/Linux distributions!
- Encrypted storage support (via Tahoe-LAFS!) Want to keep your media private without having to host all those files locally yourself? We'll add an encrypted storage backend to make that more awesome.
- +1 more donor-voted features!
- [BONUS!] Awesome MediaGoblin wallpaper by Justin Nichol, amazing free culture artist!
- Dedicated design resource: Get dedicated support to make MediaGoblin look even way more awesome than it already does! More polished and slick looking user interfaces than ever!
- Improved uploading tools: Better feedback as your media uploads and current upload progress!
- +2 more donor-voted features!
- [BONUS!] New 3d model of one of the MediaGoblin characters! Released under a free culture license for maximum remixability!
- libgoblin: Break out MediaGoblin's core components into a library others can use!
- Micro-CMS addon: WYSIWIG editor for adding custom pages to your MediaGoblin site!
- [BONUS!] New 3d model of one of the MediaGoblin characters! Released under a free culture license for maximum remixability!
- [MORE TO COME AS THE CAMPAIGN PROGRESSES!]
Exciting rewards!
NOTE: the campaign is over; you can still donate, but you cannot select rewards. Thanks for your support!
All of these options include MediaGoblin stickers!
Why support MediaGoblin?
MediaGoblin is already pretty awesome, and can do a lot of the things people want from a media publishing system on the web. But there are still some things it needs to become the most awesome, free-loving, decentralized media publishing system it can be. With your help, we can make this happen.
Here's what we want to fund out of this campaign:
Federation
Federation is how we can have a decentralized network of MediaGoblin sites while keeping the social experience people are used to with centralized sites. We've already begun work on this using the Pump API and a library we're collaborating on building called PyPump.
We have some basics of this working in MediaGoblin, but this is a significant task, and we'd like to pull in dedicated resources to make sure federation works smoothly in MediaGoblin!
Wrap up 1.0
We're very close to our awesome 1.0 release that lays out all the main features we originally planned for MediaGoblin. Help us wrap that up!
Privacy features
Say you want to share your baby photo with your family and close friends, but not your coworkers? We've got plans to add private sharing (including federated private sharing!), and you can help us make them happen!
In addition, we'd like to add new cool privacy-supporting features, including support for the awesome crypto-storage system, Tahoe LAFS!
Bring MediaGoblin to the people
We want everyone to be using MediaGoblin! We want to put resources into making MediaGoblin easy to use and deploy. This means putting more work into our interface design and adding new, simplified deployment solutions.
Interested in talking to us?
Email press@mediagoblin.org
Video by Christopher Allan Webber and others (see credits),
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Visual materials additionally available under the
GNU GPL v3 or
later as published by the FSF.
Awesome rewards pixel art by Alex Camelio,
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CC0 1.0.