Table of contents - UK IRC Meetings

Table of contents - UK IRC Meetings

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IRC meetings

Meetings take place in #uk on irc.indymedia.org - irc info here:

18 April 2004

Agenda suggestions

Notes and logs

UkIrcMtg2004Apr^? can be used as the page for writing notes during the meeting and/or afterwards

21 March 2004

This meeting took place at 2pm GMT on #uk in irc.indymedia.org,

Notes

Here's a start: UkIrcMtg20032004Notes

IRC logs of meeting

uk-mtg-21032004.txt: Meeting irc logs

Agenda suggestions

1. Intros

2. Agree agenda and facilitator and who will post logs to this page and who will send summery to list(s).

3. HTTPS certificate for https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/ -- any reason not to get a http://cacert.org/ one?

4. @indymedia.org.uk email addresses:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkEmail

5. Events calendar:

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2004-March/005221.html

6. Video uploads problems and possible solutions:

21:22 < jebba> hey. chrisc, you see my message about ftp for UK?
21:23 < jebba> (well, not a message, just a line in irc ;)
21:24 <@chrisc> nope
21:24 < jebba> brb: see ftp://uk.indymedia.org
21:24 < jebba> ok. set up anonymous ftp upload. 
21:24 <@chrisc> ah, cool
21:24 <@chrisc> now we need a way to mir to pick stuff up from there...
21:24 < jebba> 'uk' user on ahimsa just needs to 'cp' the file to a new location and its 
               available via ftp
21:24 < jebba> see /imc/ftp/uk

7. Zapata's planned features:

Article locking
Some other neat stuff...

8. New regions, South Coast, Birmingham, Lancaster -- setting up sections for these regions.

making docs on what this involves and options, possiblities available.

9. The templates, now hosted on codecoop:

http://codecoop.org/projects/imc-uk/

process for who checks in and when, checking and moving templates to live server kosmos

10. The dev server (still not quite working yet):

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkDevServer

11. Next meeting?

12. Other stuff... please add!

Results

Video Uploads Problem

The video upload problems we have been experiencing was on the agenda for this meeting. Yossarian outlined the problems and got replies from some of the more server-tech-oriented people (thanks for this). Following this, Y took the opportunity to try a few experiments with uploads and has made some progress on the problems.

Briefly, since the switch to Mir last year, it has been almost impossible to upload video to the site. Repeated attempts lead to repeated "error" pages being generated, which leads to massive frustration and low participation from video producers. There has been some speculation over the past few months that perhaps the encrypted https:// upload standard is screwing things up. Acting on that, Yoss had tried to upload an .mp4 file using the unencrypted submission page during the Bush visit, encountered the familiar and inexplicable "error" page, and given up again in frustration after two hours of attempted uploads.

However, something that anarchobabe said during today's meeting was interesting; she said that "it was important for file types such as .ogg and .png working with uploads". Y realized that perhaps the single test with an .mp4 file had been useless because .mp4 uploads are not allowed by the Mir software. So he tested again. Results:

a) two 18+ MB file uploads worked immediately using the unencrypted interface b) three attempts at encrypted uploads failed c) three attempts to upload .mp4 files using the unencrypted interface failed d) changing the .mp4 extenstion to .mov and using the unencrypted interface for upload worked perfectly.

In short: pending further tests there is nothing at all wrong with video uploads to the UK. If you want to upload something, use the url:

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/uk/servlet/OpenMir?do=opensession&sessiontype=article&language=en

click the "Non-encrypted publish page for IE users on Macs"

We are going to have to alter the publish form to say something like "If you are having problems with video, audio, or photo uploads to the site, click on this link to be taken to an unencrypted article submission page." Anybody wants to write a text for it, go ahead, otherwise I'll take a crack at it maybe next week sometime (this week is going to be very busy for me with work commitments I think).

Yossarian

I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
	uk-mtg-21032004.log	manage	75.5 K	21 Mar 2004 - 19:55	ChrisC	IRC logs from the meeting
	uk-mtg-21032004.txt	manage	75.5 K	21 Mar 2004 - 23:11	ChrisC	Meeting irc logs