Zotero (zotero.org) is a research tool. It has an open source (AGPL) client and open server API. Mediagoblin supports pdfs, audio & video. All that is required is the "web snapshot" and then it will support all media types that zotero likes (or we could figure out if we can do a partial useful zotero support to start with). By implementing the server API and suitably updating the client to sync to a give address we should have a completely open zotero implementation. Not sure if the existing server is not already open, but I couldn't find anything on the zotero site.

In the ​Considerations for Production Deployments, there are a few distribution specific init scripts mentionned. Here's a more cross-system one, using Supervisor, a process control system. On Debian, it's more reliable than ​joar's MediaGoblin init scripts, as it doesn't fail at restarting them.

I suggest to add the following "init method" for Debian in the documentation mentionned above.

The Paster FCGI server supervisor file, with MediaGoblin's documentation paths.

[program:mediagoblin-paster]
command = /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/bin/paster serve /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/paste_local.ini --server-name=fcgi fcgi_host=127.0.0.1 fcgi_port=26543
directory = /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin
user = mediagoblin
autostart = true
autorestart = true
stdout_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/mediagoblin-paster.log
stderr_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/mediagoblin-paster_err.log
environment = CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER=false

The Celery task processor supervisor file, with MediaGoblin's documentation paths.

[program:mediagoblin-celeryd]
command = /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin/bin/celeryd
directory = /srv/mediagoblin.example.org/mediagoblin
user = mediagoblin
autostart = true
autorestart = true
stdout_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/mediagoblin-celeryd.log
stderr_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/mediagoblin-celeryd_err.log
environment = CELERY_CONFIG_MODULE="mediagoblin.init.celery.from_celery"

I'm not a supervisor-guru, I just followed these ​Section Values in supervisor's configuration documentation, so anyone is free to improve it, of course !

​https://github.com/campadrenalin/mediagoblin/tree/document-ubuntu-trusty-ffmpeg-issue

Starting in 14.04, Ubuntu mysteriously does not include the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package. It includes the various other gstreamer packages that the GMG audio and video code needs - it's just missing the one.

The easiest and safest way to get your ffmpeg fix is to add the universe repos from the previous version of Ubuntu to your sources.list. Trustworthy source, version numbers will be lower so it won't clobber any Trusty packages, etc. That's all it takes to get the missing package to work.

This branch updates the docs, to point users to the aforementioned fix, using the power of footnotes. Or rather, one footnote referenced in two places.