MEDIAGOBLIN
Build a streaming video web service
Mike McCallister helps you collect and share your children’s sporting exploits with their teammates with the free video service MediaGoblin.
Mike McCallister
The (fictional) Brixton Youth Sports Association (BYSA) needs a place to store instructional videos, game footage, schedules and all the other things to celebrate and educate players, coaches and parents in the sports they organise. They could use YouTube or any other commercial video site, but it’s better to have something a bit more private, no?
Enter MediaGoblin, a Python-based tool enabling folks to share all kinds of media with just the people they want to share with, no corporate servers required. MediaGoblin uses the ActivityPub web standard (see box, bottom right) to permit sharing.
OUR EXPERT
Mike McCallister is more interested in watching sports than playing them, but loves the open web.
Enjoying MediaGoblin
MediaGoblin doesn’t yet offer the prettiest site on the internet (if you’re so inclined, you can create your own theme), but it works pretty well.
Users start by setting up a simple profile with a username, password and email address. After confirming the email address, they can add a bio if they like. Viewing media is just a click away.
MediaGoblin gives your youth sports group a place to store and share videos, photos, documents and other media. You control it, too.