About Us
The Beginning
In 2005, the City of Denver withdrew the operating support they had provided public access TV. This decision pushed the Denver community to innovate and devise a new user-driven model that could function without the general operating support once provided. As one of Denver’s leading nonprofit media education and production companies, Deproduction began transforming the existing CTC into Denver Open Media, a new kind of TV station, leveraging a small staff to enable the community to participate in more powerful and meaningful ways than ever before.
A Model for Open Media
Deproduction was the recipient of a Knight News Challenge award in 2008. At the core of this grant is the collection and implementation of a set of open-source tools in Drupal, designed for Public Access TV stations and Community Technology Centers.
Throughout 2008, Deproduction continued updating and developing the various Drupal modules used in the automated, user-driven operation of Denver Open Media. In early 2009, Deproduction released the beta version of these tools as a suite of modules based and began implementing these tools at Denver Open Media and the initial group of 6 development partners.
With these tools released and in use at several locations, the Open Media Project's goal for a nation-wide user-driven network is becoming a reality.
Updated Modules Listing
Open Media Project Modules
| Open Media Show | http://drupal.org/project/om_show | This module contains the metadata and videos encoded with different formats using Media Mover for the Open Media System. |
| Open Media Project | http://drupal.org/project/om_project | This module leverages Organic Groups to add functionality around the projects. |
| MERCI | http://drupal.org/project/merci | MERCI can extend any content type into a list of unique reservable items (like studios) or bucket of interchangeable items (like DV cameras). |
| OM Crew Connect | ||
| OM Support | http://drupal.org/project/om_support | This module is used to support locations using the Open Media System. |
| OM Broadcast Synchronization | http://drupal.org/project/om_broadcast_sync | The module creates the Airing (om_airing) and Broadcast Server Schedule Feed (om_feed) content types as well as the Feed Element Mapper mappings that map the RSS from the playback server to the Airing. |
| OM Timeslot Scheduler | http://drupal.org/project/om_timeslot_scheduler | The Open Media System's Timeslot Scheduler creates two content types: Timeslot Theme and Timeslot Event. |
Other-related/Dependent Modules
| String Overrides | http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides | Provides a quick and easy way to replace any text on the site. |
| Organic Groups | http://drupal.org/project/og | Enable users to create and manage their own 'groups'. Each group can have subscribers, and maintains a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. |
| Media Mover | http://drupal.org/project/media_mover | Media Mover allows administrators to setup multiple configurations that are responsible for different kinds of media handling. |
| Creative Commons | http://drupal.org/project/creativecommons | The Creative Commons module allows users to select and assign a Creative Commons license to a node and any attached content. Additionally, the site admin can select a license to assign to the entire site. |
| Image Cache | http://drupal.org/project/imagecache | ImageCache allows you to setup presets for image processing. |
| Image API | http://drupal.org/project/imageapi/ | This API is meant to be used in place of the API provided by image.inc. |
| CCK | http://drupal.org/project/cck | Content Construction Kit; CCK is primarily designed for point and click creation of content. |
| Image Field | http://drupal.org/project/imagefield | ImageField provides an image upload field for CCK. |
| File Field | http://drupal.org/project/filefield | FileField provides a universal file upload field for CCK. |
| File Field Local | http://openmediaproject.org/code/filefieldlocal | This module is required by om_show, but will not be added to Drupal's CVS. |
| File Paths | ||
| FFMPEG | http://openmediaproject.org/code/ffmpeg-wrapper-wrapper-remote | Customized version of FFMPEG Wrapper. This will not be committed to Drupal's CVS. |
| Five Star | http://drupal.org/project/fivestar | The Five Star voting module adds a clean, attractive voting widget to nodes in Drupal 5 and 6. |