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GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released 43

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from the zuckerburg-is-goblin-food dept.
A mere year since the Mediagoblin photo/video sharing project was started, the project has hit version 0.3.0. Release highlights include: a rewrite of the database from MongoDB to SQL (via SQLAlchemy, making it much easier to install), audio support (using the HTML5 <audio> tag), a first take on a mobile interface, and smarter video buffering. Not content to sit idle, the developers are starting work on Salmon protocol support to federate with software like Diaspora in the next release.
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Director of "Elephants Dream" releasing new Blender-animated film, "Tube"->

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TheSilentNumber writes "Bassam Kurdali's free culture 3D animation, "Tube" is nearing the final stages of production. Tube is a collaborative effort between 56 artists from 22 countries...some of which are at war. After directing the first of the Blender Institute's "Open Movie Projects", Elephants Dream, Bassam wanted to prove the viability of free cultural works and usability of free software like Blender and PiTiVi for independent filmmakers. Just a few days after launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the project, the goal has been met, which means we should see the final release in 7 months!"
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Comment: Re:Esperanto (Score 1) 535

by Aleksej (#34729910) Attached to: Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet

So is the IRC channel empty? Doesn't really matter - if there is a considerable benefit in learning the target language, then someone needs to study that and quantify it.

Maybe I visit it at the wrong time, but even last time, lojbanists were discussing in English something about the newsgroup. Another time, over half of the messages were people asking in English how to translate something into Lojban.
Maybe they just have poor learning methods/tools.

Comment: Re:Esperanto (Score 1) 535

by Aleksej (#34692986) Attached to: Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet

Esperanto has proven itself already

In which way? There are 2 million Esperanto speakers after 120 years (and that's a very generous estimate).

I'm afraid I will say something which may not be a very good argument for learning Esperanto. :>
How short should it take for an "artificial" (bad word for many!) language to become popular after its use has been persecuted or limited by the government for years or tens of years, when most people don't really care about language study if it's advertised heavily?

If Lojban is better (or even easier to learn) then it would be more beneficial to use that.

Even if Lojban is somehow easier to learn, it is probably not easy enough to speak: look at its IRC channel.

Odets, where is thy sting? -- George S. Kaufman