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Media Goblin is a GNU project and a brand new media hosting service that is
being built for federation. We believe that a free decentralized web is
critical to the health of the internet. This is our Alpha 0.1.0 release
announcement.

So, what's new for 0.1.0?  We've completely redone the main website (
http://mediagoblin.org/) We even have a new tour page! (
http://mediagoblin.org/pages/tour.html) Thanks so much to Jef van Schendel
for making our website a thing of beauty (and to Alex Camelio for adding
the cute icons on the frontpage). Go ahead and check it out! Seriously,
we'll be right here when you return.

You may find it invigorating to look at our Alpha goals (
http://mediagoblin.org/news/goals-for-our-first-alpha-release.html) to see
how far we've come. While there are a few things we didn't get to (captchas
and featured works) there are many more big ideas that we were able to turn
into reality. We have a sophisticated "unframework" which is working
beautifully for our needs. We have a great, consistent (and dare I say
suave?) theme. We have an abstracted storage system which already is being
used to interface with OpenStack's Swift storage system. Comments and
tagging are working. We're also well on our way toward supporting multiple
media types. We are living the dream and the reality is even better than
we'd expected. Welcome to our alpha release!

Thanks to all our contributors! Aaron Williamson, Alejandro Villanueva,
Alex Camelio, Caleb Forbes Davis V, Christopher Allan Webber, Deb
Nicholson, Elrond of Samba TNG, Jef van Schendel, Jim Campbell, Joar
Wandborg, Nathan Yergler, Sam Kleinman, Shawn Khan, Thorsten Wilms, Will
Kahn-Greene... this month's release wouldn't have happened without your
help!

What's around the corner? For one thing, video is nearing usability, (
http://mediagoblin.org/images/tour/sintel_video.png) and the exciting work
on federation is in planning. We've got lots of small bugs for folks who
are new to python, larger tasks for folks who want to immerse themselves in
the challenge of federation and we are actively seeking opinionated web
users to give us feedback on our test site. Join us on the journey! (
http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html)

Got questions? Email info@mediagoblin.org or visit us on
freenode.net<http://frennode.net/>in #mediagoblin (We're very
friendly!)
Cheers,
The MediaGoblin Team

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Media Goblin is a GNU project and a brand new media hosting service that is=
 being built for federation. We believe that a free decentralized web is cr=
itical to the health of the internet. This is our Alpha 0.1.0 release annou=
ncement. <br>

<br>So, what&#39;s new for 0.1.0?=A0 We&#39;ve completely redone the main w=
ebsite (<a href=3D"http://mediagoblin.org/" target=3D"_blank">http://mediag=
oblin.org/</a>) We even have a new tour page! (<a href=3D"http://mediagobli=
n.org/pages/tour.html" target=3D"_blank">http://mediagoblin.org/pages/tour.=
html</a>) Thanks so much to Jef van Schendel for making our website a thing=
 of beauty (and to Alex Camelio for adding the cute icons on the frontpage)=
. Go ahead and check it out! Seriously, we&#39;ll be right here when you re=
turn.<br>

<br>You may find it invigorating to look at our Alpha goals (<a href=3D"htt=
p://mediagoblin.org/news/goals-for-our-first-alpha-release.html" target=3D"=
_blank">http://mediagoblin.org/news/goals-for-our-first-alpha-release.html<=
/a>) to see how far we&#39;ve come. While there are a few things we didn&#3=
9;t get to (captchas and featured works) there are many more big ideas that=
 we were able to turn into reality. We have a sophisticated &quot;unframewo=
rk&quot; which is working beautifully for our needs. We have a great, consi=
stent (and dare I say suave?) theme. We have an abstracted storage system w=
hich already is being used to interface with OpenStack&#39;s Swift storage =
system. Comments and tagging are working. We&#39;re also well on our way to=
ward supporting multiple media types. We are living the dream and the reali=
ty is even better than we&#39;d expected. Welcome to our alpha release! <br=
>

<br>Thanks to all our contributors! Aaron Williamson, Alejandro Villanueva,=
 Alex Camelio, Caleb Forbes Davis V, Christopher Allan Webber, Deb Nicholso=
n, Elrond of Samba TNG, Jef van Schendel, Jim Campbell, Joar Wandborg, Nath=
an Yergler, Sam Kleinman, Shawn Khan, Thorsten Wilms, Will Kahn-Greene... t=
his month&#39;s release wouldn&#39;t have happened without your help!<br>

<br>What&#39;s around the corner? For one thing, video is nearing usability=
, (<a href=3D"http://mediagoblin.org/images/tour/sintel_video.png" target=
=3D"_blank">http://mediagoblin.org/images/tour/sintel_video.png</a>) and th=
e exciting work on federation is in planning. We&#39;ve got lots of small b=
ugs for folks who are new to python, larger tasks for folks who want to imm=
erse themselves in the challenge of federation and we are actively seeking =
opinionated web users to give us feedback on our test site. Join us on the =
journey! (<a href=3D"http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html" target=3D"_bla=
nk">http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html</a>)<br>
<br>Got questions? Email <a href=3D"mailto:info@mediagoblin.org" target=3D"=
_blank">info@mediagoblin.org</a> or visit us on <a href=3D"http://frennode.=
net/" target=3D"_blank">freenode.net</a> in #mediagoblin (We&#39;re very fr=
iendly!)<br>
Cheers, <br>The MediaGoblin Team<br><br><br>

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