A Family Collaboration Server? 76
esobofh asks: "I'm interested in putting together a server for my family that would allow everyone to share & store pictures, movies and music. Whenever we have a family gathering, there are always a ton of digital cameras out and clicking away, so I'd like to have everyone share and submit the pictures and movies they've captured for everyone in the family. I am sure I could roll my own collaboration server, but I'm hoping there is something already put together and pretty. I'd like it to use standard files and directories for storing photos (as opposed to a database), that way the files can easily be moved and manipulated. Is there an application that can handle user accounts, picture submissions (file upload via browser), and other such content?"
Wiki (Score:2)
Re:Wiki (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Wiki (Score:2)
It does requiere a database, but that shouln't be a show stopper.
Re:Wiki (Score:2)
Re:Wiki (Score:2, Informative)
But if a wiki [wikipedia.org] were used, here's some info:
MediaWiki would be a good one, however it uses databases. Dokuwiki [splitbrain.org] can be used to upload files of all sorts. It isnt very helpful in terms of creating a gallery of pictures however.
Here is a comparison of wikis: Wiki Comparison Table [wikipedia.org]
Re:Wiki (Score:2)
Re:Wiki (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wiki (Score:2)
Gallery2? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Gallery2? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Share movies/music? (Score:3, Insightful)
You do know that many people have video cameras, right? The **AAs aren't going to sue anybody for posting their own pictures and videos.
Re:Share movies/music? (Score:2)
Not sure if it's exactly relevant here, or if the story was a hoax, but it's certa
Re:Share movies/music? (Score:3, Informative)
They sent a letter to Penn State astronomy department. They have a Professor Usher, who happened to have an mp3 of him and fellow astronomers singing or something. "Usher" and "mp3" were enough to trigger a warning message, but it didn't go all the way to a lawsuit, and the RIAA eventually apologized.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-1001095.html [com.com]
Re:Share movies/music? (Score:2)
And no copyrighted music is playing in the background.
And no copyrighted videos are playing on the tv.
You know, basic hazards of modern life.
Better password protect that site and cover your ass (legally).
Re:Share movies/music? (Score:2)
Either make sure there are no potentially infringing materials at all on the s
What? (Score:3, Informative)
Use WebDav for images/video (Score:5, Informative)
Since most of the unwashed masses have Windows, you can use its built-in WebDav stuff. Set up an Apache server with a DAV directory. Then point your friends/family to the URL for the folder, which they merely need add to their "Web Folders." They need not know the underlying protocol to be able to use it. They can then just drag their images and videos onto the folder, and Voila! They are published. It's a no-brainer, and anyone who can drag an icon can use it.
On Linux, Nautilus can do DAV, too. I wouldn't be surprised if KDE had desktop support for it, also. DAV makes a nice small file server, when Samba or NFS won't work.
Re:What? (Score:1)
For just looking back (Score:3, Informative)
http://f-spot.org/ [f-spot.org]
A really fast picture-collection browser. It sorts everything on date by the meta-data that your digital camera put in the files. You can add 'catagories' and the like yourself. Generate albums and such.
Gallery (Score:5, Informative)
I've been pretty pleased with it. Add in a wiki for letting other family members post miscellaneous stories and whatnot. I found it easy to setup, and it does everything I need.
Re:Gallery (Score:2)
Re:Gallery (Score:3, Informative)
Gallery + Gallery Remote + CMS (Score:1)
Further, you can then extend you site with other features and functions, by integrating Gallery into a CMS, such as Joomla [menalto.com].
Re:Gallery (Score:2)
Rolling your own shouldn't be too hard (Score:1)
Maybe Gallery would work? (Forgot the URL, but it's a popular program, won't help with videos but it looks
Re:Rolling your own shouldn't be too hard (Score:1)
If a wiki is too complicated for the non-geek family members then a [b]simple[/b] image/movie sharing site can very easily be made in PHP.
It's little more than a file-upload form and an image gallery/viewer really. A 1-week PHP project imo.
This way it can be done to taste as well.
PHP is a -very- easy language. You can pretty much learn it as you go along.
Re:Rolling your own shouldn't be too hard (Score:1)
phpWebsite (Score:4, Informative)
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/ [appstate.edu]
Features from website
Grab an old PC... (Score:3, Insightful)
Give each of your family members an account on the machine, so they can FTP in and upload pictures to their directory. They can even create their own directory hierarchies, so as to organize their photos as they wish.
Set up lighttpd to allow directory listing, and have it serve up content from the directories your relatives can FTP files to. That way they don't have to create a web page containing their images, or anything like that. Of course, if they want to, they're free to do so.
If they're running Windows, you can easily copy files via FTP using Explorer. It's the same drag-and-drop interface they should be used to using locally.
The best part of setting up a system like that is that it's very simple, of minimal cost, and doesn't involve PHP, MySQL, Perl, Ruby, CGI scripts, or anything else like that. Not only that, but it can take full advantage of the security offered by UNIX-like systems.
Re:Grab an old PC... (Score:1)
Just have them email all their pictures to you, and make an easy webpage with dreamweaver or something. It'll take less time in the end, and it'll be easier for everyone.
Oh, and if your email account doesn't have enough room, get GMail.
Re:Grab an old PC... (Score:2)
I'm assuming they are using Windows XP, though. If you try to set all that up on 98, me, or linux for them... Well, may God have mercy on your soul.
Re:Grab an old PC... (Score:1)
Community Server (Score:5, Interesting)
Blogs, forums, files, photos, RSS feeds, role based security, etc. I use it to host a site for all my old college friends. The SQL server database is quite happy on both of the free MS SQL offerings, Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) and SQL Express. Only the blog and forum postings and settings are stored in the database. The files and photos are stores in the file system.
Re:Community Server (Score:3, Informative)
One of my favorite websites runs it (The Daily WTF [thedailywtf.com]), and there are continual complaints about it on practically every entry. One of the primary problems (improved, but still not completely fixed) is its mysterious ability to take a nicely formatted post, and end up automagically quoting all the < and > in the HTML view. End result is the preview looks OK, but the final post ends up a gobbledegook of HTML. Turns a nice post into an unre
Re:Community Server (Score:2, Informative)
My favorite is Drupal [drupal.org], as I've had lot's of experience using it, and I find it gives you the biggest feature set for your effort. The number of plug ins [drupal.org] (modules) are extensive, and the end user experience can be whatever you want it to be. There are many Drupal hosting sites [drupal.org] available that are fairly inexpensive, an
On a Mac (Score:2, Informative)
iPhoto with iLife '06 lets other users subscribe to your photo libraries. Might suit your needs.
:ducks:
Re:On a Mac (Score:1)
Umm... (Score:1)
Duh!
Yahoo Group (Score:1)
Re:Yahoo Group (Score:2)
In addition I'd add that Yahoo Groups tend to lose and delay a lot of mail and don't have all that much storage. You're much better off setting something up on a server at home or on a inexpensive web host.
A CMS... (Score:2)
I've set one up for my brother to post photo's and videos and news and stuff for his new-born twins, works well, and keeps everyone happy as no-one gets missed from sending out stuff.
John.
Re:A CMS... (Score:1)
I just built a family server myself... (Score:1)
It seems like just the other day... (Score:5, Informative)
Foldershare Works Well (Score:3, Informative)
We use it to share Pics and Vids and Music. You just have everyone create a folder on their drive, then give each account permissions. They drop stuff in the folder and eveyone gets a copy via P2P. It's a bit of a pain to setup initally, but a snap to use once it's running.
Get NAS (Score:2, Interesting)
It's got all the file sharing protocols installed from smb, cifs, afp, ftp, nfs with decent storage size up to 1TB and just let Windows mount the share in a public folder, everyone in the network can see it.
Plone (Score:2)
Re:Plone (Score:2)
I use Zope/Plone for my home server. If you want a wiki you can add ZWiki (http://zwiki.org).
Clarkconnect is the winner here. (Score:1)
KJ
Re:Clarkconnect is the winner here. (Score:2)
I rolled my own at first... (Score:2)
So instead I set up a simple file server with a strict structure (backups, archive, work area, private, pictures, movies, music, incoming
Coppermine (Score:2)
http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php [coppermine-gallery.net]
Share and store pictures and MUSIC (Score:2)
FamilyAnywhere.com (Score:1)
I built exactly what you're looking for (Score:1)
MyFamily.com (Score:1)
Use a Wiki! (Score:1)
Re:ssh anyone? (Score:2)
In
Viiv (Score:2)
Give this little known product a try... (Score:1)
Runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
PS. The new /. look and feel really, really SUCKS real bad.
Better late than never (Score:1)
eGroupware (Score:1)
eGroupware [egroupware.org]
Try this (Score:1)
Just released by Jotspot (Score:1)
I have nothing to do with jotspot, get no money from them, nor them from me. I've never tried their product, IANAL, YMMV, FTC, RTFM,...