1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 The internet was once a healthy, resilient, and self-healing place.. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,050 But then things began to change... 3 00:00:08,050 --> 00:00:12,150 power has moved from the many to the few... 4 00:00:12,150 --> 00:00:15,010 These corporate megasites are fragile, 5 00:00:15,010 --> 00:00:19,020 sometimes going out entirely... 6 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:25,030 Censorship has become rampant... 7 00:00:25,030 --> 00:00:31,930 And the last year has shown surveillance to be creeping into the systems of the web. 8 00:00:31,930 --> 00:00:37,750 Centralization has infected the net at the cost of our privacy and safety 9 00:00:37,750 --> 00:00:42,020 while eroding user freedom. 10 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:48,030 Is there any hope for the internet we knew and loved? 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:54,540 But wait... something new has arrived... 12 00:00:54,540 --> 00:01:02,920 Something to put power back in the hands of the people... 13 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,740 MediaGoblin! 14 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:09,000 MediaGoblin is a media publishing system for the web 15 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,820 it's decentralized and social 16 00:01:11,820 --> 00:01:17,410 With MediaGoblin, you don't need to split your media across a billion separate commercial sites. 17 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:20,000 Whether you want to share images, 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 or video, 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,000 or audio, 20 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,800 or presentations, 21 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,660 or even 3D models... 22 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:32,650 MediaGoblin can host it all. 23 00:01:32,650 --> 00:01:38,370 MediaGoblin is written in python by a community of over 75 contributors. 24 00:01:38,370 --> 00:01:44,780 MediaGoblin is a GNU project which means we're all about bringing freedom back to you, the user. 25 00:01:44,780 --> 00:01:48,360 MediaGoblin's key feature is Federation 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,070 With federation, we can provide user freedom and IMPROVE 27 00:01:52,070 --> 00:01:54,930 the social experience of modern media publishing sites 28 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:57,950 by making the network more resilient. 29 00:01:57,950 --> 00:01:59,950 When you favorite a photo, 30 00:01:59,950 --> 00:02:01,950 post a comment to a video, 31 00:02:01,950 --> 00:02:03,950 or share your latest drawing, 32 00:02:03,950 --> 00:02:07,190 you want people to be able to see those updates. 33 00:02:07,190 --> 00:02:11,000 But how do you share with people on a totally different MediaGoblin site? 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,400 With federation, people can be on entirely different MediaGoblin sites 35 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,420 and share as if they were in the same place! 36 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:21,010 We've been working towards this using a protocol 37 00:02:21,010 --> 00:02:24,880 called the Pump API, as implemented by Pump.io. 38 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,990 As part of this, we've been collaborating on building a library called PyPump, 39 00:02:28,990 --> 00:02:32,910 which will make it easy for python web applications of all kinds to federate. 40 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:37,490 We've got an accomplished crew of contributors that work hard and make things happen. 41 00:02:37,490 --> 00:02:41,930 We've accomplished a lot, getting out 5 major releases in the last year alone. 42 00:02:41,930 --> 00:02:44,300 This includes new features like 43 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:49,500 A plugin system, 3D model support, document and PDF upload support, 44 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:51,500 User-curated collections and galleries 45 00:02:51,500 --> 00:02:54,830 Authentication plugins, including Mozilla Persona support 46 00:02:54,830 --> 00:02:56,960 OpenID support, LDAP support, 47 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,770 Comment preview, Side administration and moderation tooling, 48 00:03:00,770 --> 00:03:03,390 And many more... 49 00:03:03,390 --> 00:03:07,610 We want to make federation happen, wrap up 1.0 50 00:03:07,610 --> 00:03:09,980 add privacy features, 51 00:03:09,980 --> 00:03:12,210 and bring MediaGoblin to the people 52 00:03:12,210 --> 00:03:14,030 We can't do it without you. 53 00:03:14,030 --> 00:03:16,030 That's why we're asking for your support 54 00:03:16,030 --> 00:03:19,430 to bring the benefits of MediaGoblin to everyone. 55 00:03:19,430 --> 00:03:21,960 Become a part of internet history. 56 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,180 Join our goblin force today, 57 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:28,650 and help us bring about a media revolution!