[liberationtech] Telecomix Broadcast System

[Katherine Maher]

Okhin,

For the orthograph question--are you familiar with Yamli.com? They've
invested significant resources in solving that challenge for DB management
of transliterated lists. I believe its their B2B product but might be worth
exploring.

Katherine

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Okhin,
>
>   There are definitely challenges here, but kudos on putting this out
> there. I've got several hundred (~600) videos that were submitted to me, in
> .webm.  Because of their size, they were probably originally sourced from
> video-sharing sites, but am happy to cross-post these.  (They're divided up
> by location, with titles as descriptions).
>
>   As you mentioned on the site, the design is pretty stock, but easy to
> switch out stylesheets.
>
> Best,
> Griffin
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Brian Conley <brianc at smallworldnews.tv>wrote:
>
>> Hi Okhin,
>>
>> Great effort. There is an attempt to do this by one of the Syrian
>> opposition groups, am traveling today but will try to link you when I get
>> back to a computer. it is quite extensive, but poorly organized.
>>
>> Brian
>> On Mar 7, 2012 9:59 AM, "Okhin" <okhin at okhin.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:56:22 -0500
>>> Griffin Boyce <griffinboyce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Great job Okhin!
>>> >
>>> >   There is a real wealth of videos from Syria and the Arab Spring,
>>> > and I'm happy that you've put this together to showcase so many of
>>> > them. It's also really well organized.
>>>
>>> Well, not that well, it's mainly a scripted exploitation of the index
>>> we've built for a year (yeah, ikiwiki rox) and we have still some
>>> issues with the tagging system due to translation into english (Baba
>>> Amr, for instance, can be written with a dozen different ortograph it
>>> seems), so we need to find a way to fix that, and it would not be easy.
>>>
>>> And it would worth nothing without the people who actually took the
>>> footages and posted them to different upload website (mainly youtube
>>> and bambuser) at great risks.
>>>
>>> Okhin - also: we have a tor hidden service http://7rv7cfdyyg3kmmnx.onion
>>> and SSL will come soon
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> liberationtech mailing list
> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
>
> Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to:
>
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
>
> If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click
> above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily
> digest?"
>
> You will need the user name and password you receive from the list
> moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here:
> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
>
> Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator.
>
> Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
>



-- 
Katherine R. Maher

+1.203.858.7316
katherine.maher at gmail.com
@krmaher
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/attachments/20120307/e4b7fc8e/attachment.html>