Comment 6 for bug 237995

The screencast website could run on the WordPress platform (GPL). WordPress has a 'podcast' plugin which makes it easy to set up multimedia RSS feeds and has a flash media playing interface which supports the creation/display of playlists. Each screencast can be tagged/categorized and WordPress also has a search function so that users can find screencasts specific to their need.

We can also embed applet code in WordPress posts so that we have the option of using third party hosting/streaming services such as Archive.org (Theora friendly with automated transcoding), blip.tv (Theora friendly with transcoding and cross-posting), Vimeo, and/or YouTube ;-) Basically, any screencast on the web can be posted on the website, allowing for distributed creation of media assets.

I will gladly install WordPress at the screencasts.ubuntu.org domain so that this community initiative may continue. All we need is a PHP enabled webspace and one MySQL database. If screencasts.ubuntu.org cannot meet these requirements then I will donate one year of hosting on a shared hosting provider to facilitate this important educational portal.