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I've been looking into photo-sharing services for a bit. I had considered signing up for Flickr, as I like what I see in its sharing, licensing, and community capabilities, but I really really do not want to have a Yahoo account again. MediaGoblin looks like it could be a good alternative.
As I don't have my own server (and probably never will), I created an account on one of the public servers and fiddled around a little. Ability to license photos, good. Collections, good. It's pretty simple right now as I understand, but seems to do the job.
My biggest concern however is privacy. I have lots of photos of places and things that I would love to share with the internet in a freedom-respecting way, no problem there. But sometimes, I want to use pictures of people, especially friends and family, but want to respect their privacy by not simply publicly sharing their photo for everyone to stumble on. MediaGoblin does not seem to have the ability to mark photos as private or only for certain audiences. It makes me hesitant.
If anyone else uses MediaGoblin, what are your opinions on it?
Honestly, my thought is that you should perhaps use a different method that's more targeted, like e-mail; or perhaps a distributed social network that supports photos, like Diaspora.[0]
I see MediaGoblin as a tool for public media sharing. Private sharing doesn't seem to me like MediaGoblin's job.
I would ask themselves.
#mediagoblin on irc.freenode.net
MediaGoblin will probably be your best bet in the long term - They just haven't implemented this feature yet. As has been suggested, try talking to the folks working on MediaGoblin. :)
I have an account at Gobblin.se (which, of course, uses MediaGobblin), but I use it mainly to upload temporary images.
In the case of sharing private contents, a Diaspora account or an e-mail account would be two of your options.
You can also use Web Offer One File (WOOF) which is a script written in Python. Before using it, you may need to open a port for WOOF in your modem/router, and allow incoming traffic for it in your computer's firewall. After this, launch WOOF with the desired file and options, and share your WAN IP address together with the port number prepared for WOOF, like this:
http://[WAN IP]:[Port number]/
The clients, which in this case are your contacts, don't need any special software to download the file, as it'll be served as a normal file through their Internet browsers, as long as your network stays online and WOOF is kept running.
If you want to try WOOF, and if you plan to use Python 2.7, and because it's a script, I recommend you to get the latest version from it's official site:
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
Other than Diaspora, e-mails, and WOOF, you also have RetroShare, it requires you and your contacts to have an OpenPGP ley (it can of course create one for use with it) and RetroShare itself.
I couldn't find RetroShare in the repositories, so I decided to download a DEB file from it's Launchpad repository.
If you're going to download RetroShare in the same way as I did, and if you want to evade future problems with dependencies, and if you use GNU+Linux Trisquel 6.0 (Toutatis), just be sure to download the DEB file compiled for GNU+Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin).
Due to the fact that I don't have a contact which uses RetroShare, and that my computer is under a firewall, I can't tell you if you need to allow incoming traffic through some port.
Best regards, ADFENO.
Have a nice day.
Private albums is coming in the future with federation.
I'm working towards a static html5 multimedia gallery. I expect to do
this as it is related to my non-existent biz but we'll see when I have
actually made yee galley. Currently I working on personal camera video
processing script and video encoding to free formats scripts.
Not that I don't like media goblin. It needs some more features for me I
and need to proto type what this non-existent vid biz looks like and my
current hosting gifted by a friend has tons space and bandwidth but not
good enough for mediagoblin :(. I love MediaGoblin and when I have money
hope to support it with finance.
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