AirMozilla:v2

Stakeholders

• Consumers - anyone using air.mozilla.com
• Admin - anyone running air.moz, from website admins to stream producers
  • Asa
• Development - anyone involved in air.moz development

Streaming

Motives

• Improve user experience
• Improve stream quality
• Improve stream options

Ideas

• multiple stream qualities, e.g. low-def vs. high-def
• an audio only stream
• upgrade streaming infra. software, i.e. icecast -> gstreamer
• be able to rewind
• merge phone and ten forward mic audio directly with air.moz audio
  • currently, phone audio -> speakers in ten forward -> microphones in ten forward -> air.moz
  • ^^ the same for anyone speaking in ten forward

Website

• air.mozilla.com
• stage site?

Motives

• Make future development easier
• Support a stronger audience
• Provide more information
• Improve the user experience

Ideas

• design refresh
• Rethink code framework? i.e. Wordpress vs. ?
• Create "sub blogs"
• Publish upcoming and current events data / feed
  • possibly be able to tag these events, for flexible aggregation
• auto-play
• river of news
• sharing, e.g. embed codes, social network tools
• comments / discussions
• front page is an aggregation of all sub blogs w/ featured and/or live video in the spotlight
  • how to choose featured video?
  • different types of aggregations, upcoming, currently live, archived, tagged, featured, etc

Sub blogs

"Each sub blog would have it's own blog front page and style, and feature its own archive. Then the front page of Air Mozilla would be an edited aggregation of content from the sub blogs."

So, we'd have, for example, a "Marketing Live" blog with a sticky post at the top that displayed the current live event. Below would be aggregations of that sub blogs upcoming and archived events.

Then we'd have a "Project Status" blog with the same kind of format. And we'd have a "Mozilla Brownbags" blog. Etc. etc.

Themes

It would be fantastic if we connected with the MCC to create some sub blog themes.

Admin tools

• Sub blogs: create, view, update, delete
  • Name

• ACL: add owners and editors
  • Users
  • Roles
  • Permissions

• Videos
  • How does this connect with the video/stream infra?
  • How does this link to saved/archived video files?
    • link added by blog admin? or,
    • video record created by video recorder? or,
    • is auto-detection possible?
    • e.g. I just recorded a video and saved it to videos.m.o, how do I add it to my blog?

Aggregation

• home page, pulls from all sub blogs
• sub blog, moderated by admins
• types
  • featured
  • currently live
  • upcoming
  • tags
  • popularity
  • recent
• archives

Admin tools

• managing featured videos

Auto-play

• Should we use it? If so, where is it appropriate?

Sharing

• HTML code for embedding videos
• Social network sharing tools, e.g. Add-to-any / Shareaholic

Discussions

• Comments
• Forums

Background

This email sparked this project page.