TinyOgg/Wiki

This is the initial basic plan of the website. Feel free to improve and/or discuss it.

FAQ

Why not Flash?

Adobe Flash is a non-free standard. The most known and used implementation is Adobe's non-free Flash Player which is, unfortunately, used by many people even on the top of free systems like GNU/Linux. There is a free implementation called Gnash, but it doesn't implement the recent versions of Flash and that's why some popular Flash-based websites don't work well with it.

Flash isn't necessary for modern web designs. Free standard can be used to get great results without being locked-in because of some non-free one-vendor technologies.

Instead of using Flash videos, we encourage people to use HTML5 <video> tag with the free Theora video format.

Why do we need another Theora converter?

We already have many Flash video hosting/converting services what's wrong with having several Theora hosting/converting ones?

Another side of the issue is that we don't know any Free network service for that job. Having a free network service alternative is important for everybody to have the control over their digital life. We'll give users an autonomy.

What's the website name?

We don't know, we haven't decided yet. Please feel free to suggest one at this page.

Will it be for-profit service?

No, It will probably be not-for-profit, at least in the beginning. When it becomes more popular, the donations may not be enough, so we may think of finding other ways to fund the project, but the software will always be AGPL'd.

Any technical details?

Yeah. We're going to use Python and Django to develop the software. The reason why we chose Python is that we already have experience in and because of the already-existing helping tools. Also, we're going to use ffmpeg to convert videos to Theora format.