[StreamOnTheFly] sotf notes

[Robert S. <rs...@tv...>]

Dear SOTF Team,

I collected a few notes around SOTF recently, and I guess now is the 
time to send them all to you.  Maybe some of it is of use for you, I 
guess a lot will be on your do to lists anyway.

I wish you all the best for the sprint.
robert


no particular order:

* password change is possible now without knowing the old one.

* users should be able to receive password reminders via email or
   username reminders if they only remember email adress.

* rss feed only delivers the first 10 results, at least on this:
http://radio.sztaki.hu/node/rss.php?series=011se51&uiLang=ger
is that on purpose?

*  theme list is somewhat strange and uneven. we should reconsider using 
existing library standards and include multilingual versions of it, at 
least as an option next to sotf and soma. (note aug 05: maybe we add 
using tags as in flicker or delicious)

* we could have ogg conversion and automatically offer it just like
the two other standards.

* rating fields should be explained from "5stars very interesting" to 
"1star not so interesting" or alike. 5 stars do not necessarily mean 
best, although anticipated by most people.

* the person icons could be smaller than the programme icons. e.g. 50x50
for persons, 100x100 for programmes. and they could be converted to png,
to support that standard. it could go along with the mac standard for 
chat icons etc.

* the language list could feature a short set of ~50 in the pull
down and an additional button to access a standardized set of all
languages of the world.

* does sotf already meet the W3C's standards for accessibility to 
disabled people?

* characters should be checked when uploading files and adapted to
   certain standard (max lenght, no special chars, no space,..). It 
happened to me that a file could be uploaded but not deleted due to a 
special character being used.

* we could need some design update for icons, fonts, css, colours.

*  one should be able to programm a playlist and make that into a
podcasting link that you can put to your homepage.

* nice to have: searchable playlists from users on the node frontpage.

* below programmes it could be  displayed how many people have this prog 
on the playlist and who.

* playlists and portals not accessed for certain time should be
erased after notification to author.

* for our Community TV-archive, we will need to store information about 
what publishing rights the programme has itself and what other legal 
conditions are connected to it. So you can add a list of the music used, 
incl the data for collecting societies, you can add further legal issues 
and you can add your own licence, from "all rights reserved" to a CC 
licence or something like "no restriction". also, you might add 
information what you have to do in order to use a programme (e.g. "ask 
this person for permission")