Rebrand about gerbera

[whyman]

Ive gone with "Gerbera" after a family of pretty flowers.

Here is my badly inkscaped attempt at logo:

And I have registered a fasionable io domain: gerbera.io, we are modern now! 😆

@gburca I've mailed the original authors about the content on mediatomb.cc, its not obvious what licence the sites content is under it just says "copyright", so we shall see what they come back with.

[tommyp-vr4]

Some ideas to throw out there.
UDMA (ultimate digital media archive; nice geeky play on letters)
dlnArchive (play on words with dlna but doesn't roll off the tongue)
hypermedia
mediarevelation (because mediatomb was brought back from the dead)
mediacache or mediadepot

[whyman]

I was thinking a bit more abstract probably an animal or a plant or something like that.

[gburca]

I'd vote for something unique. Searching for UDMA is bound to return everything except this project. Bonus points if the domain name is not yet taken.

Unfortunately obvious names like MediaVault are already in use. FaSoLa seems more unique than DoReMi, but the domain names are taken.

Are the original authors OK with copying the static web site content to the new project?

[whyman]

If anyone knows a friendly web developer who wants to make us a website, please send them my way.

[whyman]

On 25 March 2017 at 08:45, Ian Whyman [email protected] wrote:

Do you know what licence the content on mediatomb.cc is under? It
would be useful if we could use that info as a starting point for our
new site.

You can use the documentation which is generated from the doc directory
in the source tree and is GPLv2, not sure what you would like to use otherwise?

I do not think that we specified any explicit license for the homepage
other than (c) all the content to ourselves. I think only the device
list (which is most likely obsolete) and the FAQ are not generated
directly and you do have my blessing to use the FAQ if you want it.

[elmodaddyb]

Hello, Great to see Gerbera on GitHub. I am playing around with the front-end of MediaTomb (frameset 👎 )... moving to a modern client application using Angular with ES6, Bootstrap 4.

Wondering if there is any appetite for a modern client side for Gerbera? Or is branding, solely to remove the references to MediaTomb?

Any insights....thoughts...direction?

Thanks,
E

[whyman]

@elmodaddyb: There is absolutely an appetite for a modern UI, its high on the wish list.

In terms to technologies ideally for simplicity I would like a SPA that has no compilation requirement, BS4 is ideal, and uses jquery so perhaps that would be enough in terms of libraries for this case.

[elmodaddyb]

@v00d00 - Great suggestions. ES6 compliation is a pain & complex (as I am finding...) When I make some progress I will shout....its a weekend/night project, so may take some time. Will keep you posted.

[whyman]

Closing this as it's pretty much complete.

Ive opened #84 to track the progress on an updated Web UI.