[lug] photo sharing, socializing...

Matt James matuse at gmail.com
Sun May 4 11:42:24 MDT 2014


I'll second Gallery. Lots of nice features. :-)
On May 4, 2014 10:47 AM, "Ferdinand Schmid" <ferdinand at schmidix.net> wrote:

> If you plan to host the site yourself then you may want to look at
> Gallery.  I used it in the past and it was pretty easy to setup and
> maintain.
>
> http://galleryproject.org
>
> Ferdinand
> On May 1, 2014 3:46 PM, "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>
>> You almost certainly want Diaspora or MediaGoblin, but I can't figure out
>> whether you want to connect to the wider world, so I don't know which of
>> the two. Both are truly free software, not "free" as in
>> you-or-your-marketing-data-is-the-actual-thing-sold.
>>
>> If neither of those fits, have a look at OwnCloud.
>>
>> It seems to me that, the better we master cash-gratitude, the better this
>> "free" software thing will work.
>>
>> --
>> David L. Willson
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>>
>> This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Just looking for some suggestions...
>> >
>> > I was asked by some friends from college about a setting up
>> > restricted
>> > photo sharing and social networking site.
>> > We want to be able for anyone from the group to upload and archive
>> > into
>> > "galleries" photos of ours, be able to annotate, tag and search by
>> > date,
>> > location, people tagged, etc. as well as have "conversations" about
>> > them.
>> > We would like it to be secure for the invited registered members and
>> > perhaps being able to selectively choose to make some things very
>> > private (to a limited subset) or more open.
>> >
>> > I have been looking for the components to host this myself.
>> > Certainly there are some choices for "forums", blogging, etc. What is
>> > best?
>> > What about the photo sharing part? How to integrate the discussions
>> > and
>> > images...?
>> >
>> > I can certainly just get a subscription to Smugmug or another photo
>> > sharing site though I have no personal experience setting that up for
>> > a
>> > small group.
>> > (If you have opinions/comments/recommendations on a particularly good
>> > site I would welcome that, too)
>> >
>> > But if I were to roll my own...
>> > Has anyone done anything like this? Suggestions/recommendations?
>> > The goal is really more about maintaining control and not being
>> > locked
>> > in to a proprietary service/product rather than being free... my time
>> > is
>> > actually a limiting factor here and worth something if only to me.
>> >
>> > It would be nice to try this out on my own server but be able to
>> > migrate
>> > to a hosted service as needed (some aspect of scaling it up). So some
>> > preference for things that are or could be made to run in a cloud or
>> > hosted service.
>> >
>> > --bill
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