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We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of Plumi, 0.2.2, a free and open source video-sharing software package for Plone.

This release was focused on user-enhancements, with several small improvements that should make a big difference to users, including:

* A new animation during video upload to indicate uploading.
* Transcoding messages are now only seen by site managers.
* The featured video now includes a flash player on the front page - no need to go digging for your first streaming video experience!
* Workflow improvements - consistent across videos, callouts, news and events.
* Video listings template improvement - the country metadata on each video is now listed.

1. Common Aggregation Site
Why? To simplify the browsing and searching of all of our content for our audiences, to cross-promote our content and get it seen by more people and enable greater collaboration
- what would this require each group to produce in order to contribute?
RSS feed with text metadata - what metadata included?
RSS2 with media enclosures - vodcast - what metadata included?
- does it require a new collective to make it?
Use Transmission site as basis of this
Develop over transmission-discuss list or make a sub-collective for developers
Look at Global Voices, are we doubling up?

I just thought I'd add a bit of silliness as the name of an album by a space-disco band I used to know just came to mind..
Perhaps it's the cleaning products and dust that are going to my head! Or perhaps I am floating around on a space-station listening to Grace Jones after all.. that would explain why Andrew, Andy and Agnese are dancing around me, doing the hustle in silver spacesuits.. I definitely have dust on the brain.

Transmission. I'm looking forward mostly to meeting people from other projects and learning about our different approaches to similar challenges. I think we have much to learn from each other, which will help in critiquing our current methods and help us all plan better for the future.