It’s been a while since we posted on the blog but that’s because we were so busy presenting Filmaster on multiple conferences and tech events. To keep you informed, here is a short update on what we’ve been doing in the PR area after our Democamp success.

Filmaster is free software. Everyone who knows the Pythona programming language and Django framework can join us and implement selected functionalities. During the first months we managed to get six outside developers involved: turin, bolo, mrk, Jakub Tłałka, riklaunim and Osama (the only non-Polish contributor, from Rijad, Saudi Arabia). We want to go further ad make Filmaster a truly international software project being developed all around the world. This is the main reason we have decided to have this tour around multiple geek conferences. And here is the short summary.

Google Open Source Jam in London

On September 24th Borys presented Filmaster.com on a cyclic event organized by Google, the Open Source Jam. It’s an important event on the British open source map. All the geeks from London and around summon to the Google office on Buckingham Palace Road to talk about their projects, eat pizza and drink beer. The 5-minute long Filmaster presentation was well-received, there were many questions and a lot of talks afterwards. You can watch it on Qik.com [embedded video below], but unfortunately the sound is so weak that you will hardly hear anything (Android is a great device but not the best tool to register such speeches).

Olcamp in Olszytynie

A week later, Adam was presenting Filmaster in Olsztyn, Poland during Olcamp, a local Barcamp-like event. Adam’s presentation was much longer, it took over half an hour. The audience was different as well. Not only programmers, but also academics and buisness people. Judging based on the reviews published after the event, the presentation was successful.

Adam on Olcamp

You can find more pictures from Olcamp here: Olcamp v11 w obiektywie

Jesień Linuksowa 2009

On October 2-4 Borys was in Poland for Jesień Linuksowa (“The Autumn with Linux”), the annual Polish Linux summit in Świętokrzystkie mountains. organized by PLUG. The audience here was very technical, so the hour-long presentation focused more on the software aspects of the project, as well as on the nature of OSSD-compliant open software services. The event was streamed live over the Internet. The video (in Polish) will be available for download later this month (hopefully).

Borys on Jesien

PyCon in Ustroń

The next conference attended by Filmaster crew was PyCon Poland — the biggest summit of Python enthusiasts in this country. As Filmaster is written in Python and its most popular web framework — Django, there was a lot to talk about. Adam, who was presenting in Ustroń, talked about the pros and cons of using Django for a service like thus, the benefits of the open source development model and the great libraries (like modules from the Pinax project) that we used to make Filmaster what it is.
The event was full of international Python superstars like Wesley Chun who was promoting his book “Core Python Programming” or Honza Kral, a well-known Czech Django developer. The three day long conference was a great occasion to meet lots of interesting people, listen to tons of great presentations and “lightning talks” and generally have fun among other geeks

A few very promising connections have been established and we may soon have some very interesting news as far as Filmaster further development in many areas is concerned.

Pycon - discussions

Barcamp London

The last even that we’d like to talk about here is Barcamp London which took place last weekend. Borys attended Barcamp and gave two short 20-minute speeches, first on on open internet services and how they can find a competitive edge with the proprietory ones, and the second one focused entirely on Filmaster, an example of such service.

Borys on Barcamp London (Image thanks to yaili)

We certainly hope that the conference activity is going to attract some great new great developers to the project. Building a service like this is not an easy thing so the community behind it (both user and developer community) is crucial for success.

But in any case, it was good fun to attend all those events. We met tons of fantastic people and we hope you guys also had good time listening to us talking about the project.

And now, the fun is over, we shall get back to the code!

Borys & Adam
(The Two Filmasters)