Revision as of 22:44, 11 December 2013

ETC Cloud API Prototype project

purpose

The Entertainment Technology Center @ the University of Southern California (ETC) formally launched “Production in the Cloud,” a new project that brings together a core group of key media and cloud-resource leaders to develop guidelines and accelerate innovation and adoption of next-gen cloud-based content creation, production, and distribution tools and processes. Senior executives from the six major studios in coordination with Rackspace, EMC, EVault, Front Porch Digital, Google and other cloud companies convened recently to serve as governing body to collectively guide this process. The project is looking at the life cycle of film and media production, from pre-production collaboration, production, post production and through to archiving.

This specific part of the effort is around

• Bringing together various competitive organizations to work on a common goal
• Goal of developing an interoperable cloud framework
• First steps of socializing well underway
• Next important step of creating a prototype was discussed in October
• Now we need to execute on design and implementation

timeline

• 15 October 2013: Start design
• November 2013: Setup Continuous Integration (CI) system
• December 2013: Prototype development starts
• February 2014: Prototype early release
• March 2014: Prototype release and debugging
• 07-08 April 2014: Present prototype at NAB

group structure

• Committed developers: sarob (Sean Roberts),
• mailing lists milk-dev, milk-announce here
• IRC on freednode.net channel #milk-dev
• weekly meetings agenda link here
• weekly meeting iCal schedule through openstack IRC meeting list
• easedrop meeting history

design

12nov2013 ETC production in the cloud board meeting.png

• Ingesting data from the many changes throughout the media pipeline
• Metadata from the data stored and the pipeline activities
• URL/URN marker identification for assets
  • first pass at identification process and markers File:ETC process examples.pdf

source

Link here to Milk stackforge repository

review status

Link here to Milk gerrit review page

project activity

overview of project contributors and activity to date