This weekend in rural Wiltshire, west of England, we will be taking forward the Drupal media aggregation tools which have been being developed through the Transmission network with a test case at http://www.ifiwatch.tv ...

This site can now aggregate media feeds from all kinds of video publishing platforms, moderate and display the items, and then generate new media feeds by tag or search for users to take and do what they will with.

As I understand it, the difference from Miro etc is that by aggregating feeds in a website ('webhub'?), users are not required to install a special software on their computers to access the media (which is not allowed in many web-using contexts such as offices, universities, cyber-cafes), and users will also have a choice (where available) to view low res films online or download high quality versions for screening. Plus this aggregation tool can in future be built into Drupal sites that do not publish video themselves so that non-specialist (campaign, media, education...) projects can suck, moderate and present their own selection of online video from across the web.

The software needs some tweaks though to fulfill this great potential with ease and efficiency, and to be documented throughly so that others can adopt and use it. Which is why we are going to the country...

the wiki for the event is here: http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Drupal_Video_documentation

This is the latest stage in a long, hard process of developing tools to systematically share free media (with a test case focus) on international finance - and we are using the last of the current ifiwatch.tv budget on this mini-sprint.

Sorry we couldn't invite more of you (space, focus and funds are limited), but please do stay in touch using the wiki, and using the #transmission.cc irc channel.