Published: Thu, 04/11/13
Scald
- What is Scald?
- Can you give us some of the history behind the module?
- Mention about the codesprint (rc3)
- Why did you decide to go with Scald over Media?
- What sets it apart from the Media module?
- The library that comes with Scald is real clean and easy to use, can you talk a little bit about how that came about?
- What types of digital assets can you use with Scald?
- Images
- Videos
- Audio
- Tweets, Facebook statuses etc.
- How does Scald work with on-site, and off-site digital assets?
- What is an Atom?
- What Atoms are available out of the box?
- Flash Files
- Audio : FIle Upload, Soundcloud
- Videos: Dailymotion, Youtube, Vimeo, EMbed.ly; Viddler
- PDF Files
- Tweets
- Images : Files Uploads, Flickr, Instagram
- Slides : Slideshare
- How can developers extend Scald?
- they can build their own provider module to extend =add atom types
- contribute to the issue queue
Use Cases
- What are some existing sites that are using Scald?
- Big French Media Companies : Radio France, France Television, ARTE (French/German TV), Le Figaro (one of France’s big newspaper), Radio Nova, Santé Magazine
- More big users : Commerce Guyz, British Council, Web Agencies
- I understand there’s a distribution built around Scald. How can people try that out?
Roadmap
- What’s in the future for Scald?
- 1.1 : UX redesign, responsive design, more spark integration, plupload (multi-upload), private file system, more providers
Questions from Twitter
- Antti Tuppurainen@wroxbox
@ModsUnraveled Thank you for Scald. Happy to contribute. Any toughts about responsive image solutions like picturefill #MUP058 - David H. @FromWayDowntown
@ModsUnraveled @slybud A comparison to Media module (2x) would be awesome. - Damien McKenna @DamienMcKenna
@ModsUnraveled In the interest of improving its adoption on existing sites, any plans to integrate with field_entity? - Damien McKenna @DamienMcKenna
@wroxbox @ModsUnraveled Discussing http://drupal.org/node/1874994 would be good. (Identify the features missing from File_Entity that would allow Scald to run on top of it rather than using a separate entity.) - Antti Tuppurainen@wroxbox
@ModsUnraveled Can you compare scald and bit.lyAsset asset module. #MUP058 @slybud