title: GNU MediaGoblin date: 2011-05-05 15:41 tags: python, mediagoblin, foss, autonomous author: Christine Lemmer-Webber slug: gnu-mediagoblin ---
I'm going to keep this brief. Or rather, the original content brief. We've launched a project called GNU MediaGoblin (yes, it's an official GNU project) which is going to save the internet from media hosting homogenization.
Well, hopefully! It all depends on how well we can organize ourselves, work hard, and organize our contributors. Anyway, read the announcement post. Sound interesting? We could use your help.
Here's some more info:
So far I've spent the last month putting down infrastructure, but we just announced the project this week and are getting a lot of interest. The founding team is a pretty solid group of people I think, and we've got a number of people interested in contributing. Again, we could use more. This weekend I'll spend a bit of time making it easier to get involved.
Lastly, here's our mascot goblin:
I think he's pretty cute. By the way, if you contribute to the project and do a copyright assignment to the FSF, I will probably make a cool unique goblin dedicated to you. Copyright assignment on this project is not mandatory, unless you want the goblin. :)
Since announcing on Monday we're already starting to get quite a bit of press. See: