Summary
Phase I of the Check My Reel Out project is for building out enough functionality to do a demo reel.
Architecture
i learned that the media mover implementation would not be allowed on a shared hosting solution like Bluehost. It is CPU intensive. Amazon Web Services offers a scalable solution. The only open issue is to figure out how much the final solution would cost once it was up and running 24 hours a day.
Team
- Deepak Gupta - Role: Assist with Amazon Web Services
- Kamal Ahmed - Role: Business analysis of the movie making culture and site promotion
- Ariel Saulog - Role: Business analysis of the movie making culture
- Anthony Garcia - Role: Prototyping and Project Management
- Cognitive Metaphors Padawans
Features
Check My Reel Out Phase I Features ListBR 1 Amazon Web Services Instance of Linux with PHP,Apache Web Server,MySQL database, and database configuration tools.BR 2Installation of Open Atrium DrupalBR 3Configuration of a video conversion solution in Drupal like Media MoverBR 4Demonstration screencast of 3 or 4 initial use casesBR 5Unique Theme for Site
Business Requirements
To be defined breakdown of the above features.
Use Cases:
Profile setup for an Actor
Profile setup for a Cinematographer
Profile setup for an Animator
Actor uploads and tags a video
CheckMyReelOut Design Notes from Weekly Meetings
Padawan Assignments 12/20/2009
Goals
1. Get YouTube like functionality on a Drupal install. Note: This will not work on Bluehost because it is not allowed to run scripts/programs like the FFMpeg application. You will need to get this working on your own machine or on Amazon Web Services.
2. Get this working on Amazon Web Services.
3. The last deliverable is a demonstration scenario to be used to shop the idea of the site around to investors.
4. Figure out how to point the Register.com domain name server for CheckMyReelOut.Com to Amazon Web Services Machine.
See FEATURES.
Guideliness
1. Since we only have 2 weeks, I would like a daily project status report except for the holidays of course..
2. Leave the Amazon machine on only when you are working on it. It costs money.
3. Use Deepak or myself if ever you are stuck so we can help you along.
4. Join the Drupal media group and any related IRC channels for real assistance.
5. Divide and conquer the work. Let me know who is doing what. You know each others strengths better than I do. It's best if I receive a lot of updates. Perhaps Twitter again.
6. When setting up Amazon S3 persistent storage. Try a smaller disk like 5 GB first. I set up an 20 GB disk and it costs more to have that since it is always on as soon as you set it up.
Set Up
1. First assignment is to go through the tutorial on Amazon Web Servces (http://www.sunsetlakesoftware.com/2008/09/13/running-drupal-website-amazon-ec2)
2. Review the different media solutions and pick the one you want to move forward with. I found one possible solution in Media Mover (http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-MediaMoverFileProcessingA...). Media Browser (http://24b6.net/2009/11/01/media-browser-round-3-integration-filefield) may be another solution.
3. Use ElasticFox and Firefox as tools in setup. I will send my credentials to AWS in a email to you.
4. I have taxonomy data on the CheckMyReelOut.Com site. We'll need that for tagging videos if you get this far.
Sketch -
Brian and Marc will spend the first week setting up.
The others will take it from there in the second week working on CSS, taxonomies, demonstration scenario, twitter.
The others can work in the first week if they like writing up project tasks, doing research to support Brian and Marc. If so, I want to see all this in the wiki as it is done.
http://www.checkmyreelout.com/communitydesign/node/13 - an example of what I am trying to get to - except I want the uploading of videos on our end rather than embedding youtube videos.
