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  <title>Upcoming Features in 0.3.2</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2012-11-07 10:30" />
  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html"
     ><img src="/blog_images/goblinverse_draft.png"
           alt="0.3.2 draft release artwork" /></a>
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<p>Heya all!  We had hoped in some ways we would be able to get out a
new release mid-campaign... but it turns out the campaign itself has
its own pull of energy.  Well, we're nearing the end of it (you've
<a href="/pages/campaign.html">donated</a>, right?  We could use your
help!)... but we thought we'd give an update on the state of the code.
Like the drawing above, it's <i>not quite</i> complete... but getting
there!  So in this post we hope to detail all the awesomeness that's
on the horizon.</p>

<p class="centered">
  <a href="/news/3d-support.html"
     ><img src="/blog_images/3d_support-poster.png"
           alt="3d support!  Remember that?" /></a>
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<p>So let's get to it!  The first feature is... yup!  3d model
support!  We've already <a href="/news/3d-support.html">blogged about
this in detail</a>, </p>

<p>But hey, why not throw in a bonus!  Here's a higher res image of
that print that came out per the video shown in that previous
post:</p>

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  <a href="/news/3d-support.html"
     ><img src="/blog_images/sappho_head.png"
           alt="Sappho's head, printed out" /></a>
</p>

<p>Anyway!  So that's one exciting thing.  What's up next?  How about
API support!  All you out there wondering when we're going to get the
ability to upload from your phone, or your desktop, or whatever?
WELL!  Thanks to Joar Wandborg and the Icelandic government (who
funded the feature!) we now have an API!  This means that if you want
a mobile upload application for your phone, the infrastructure to
build it on MediaGoblin's side is falling into place.  And if you want
to build a tool that takes a screenshot and auto-uploads it to your
MediaGoblin account, you can!  (Why not!) </p>

<p>Anyway it's hard to create an exciting screenshot of an API, but
Joar created a few demo applications, so here's some screenshots of
that page on GitHub (gasp! centralized service!)</p>

<p class="centered">
  <a href="https://github.com/jwandborg/omgmg"
     ><img src="/blog_images/api_omgmg.png"
           alt="OMGMG - GNU MediaGoblin client" /></a>
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<p>And also...</p>

<p class="centered">
  <a href="https://github.com/jwandborg/automgtic"
     ><img src="/blog_images/api_automgtic.png"
           alt="automgtic is an automatic media uploader for GNU MediaGoblin." /></a>
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<p>What else?  How about collections!  This next release brings
collection support, which means that you can organize media into
custom galleries!  Want to sort things based on pictures of cute
puppies?  Maybe something else?  Below is an example of Joar making a
gallery of some Tears of Steel clips:</p>

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  <img src="/blog_images/tears_of_steel_collection.png"
       alt="Tears of Steel collection image" />
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<p>Anyway.  That's a whole bunch of features!  There's a bunch of
other small things as well.  For example, thumbnails are now much
nicer looking in the current release.  But we still need to do quite a
bit of cleanup before we can package all these features all into a
nice and clean release.  Part of the reason this has been stalled
though is the very same reason for this fundraiser though.
Coordinating all this takes lots of work... we really need dedicated
coordination and development time to pull this all together.  But as
you can see, we're building awesome futures... help us make them even
more awesome!  The future of MediaGoblin awesomeness is powered by
you... so <a href="/pages/campaign.html">support MediaGoblin</a>!</p>

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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">
    <img src="/blog_images/support_mediagoblin-blagpost.png"
         alt="Gavroche imploring you to support MediaGoblin!" />
  </a>
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