create an FTP like folder on solidproject.org

[bourgeoa]

https://gitter.im/solid/team?at=620542df1fe6ba5a971b6b58

[jeff-zucker]

As [discussed] (https://github.com/solid/team/blob/main/meetings/2022-01-12.md) this should be writable by Solid Team members but not anyone else and should be publicly readable.

[timbl]

Why on earth not use a pod?

[timbl]

Or part of a pod?

[timbl]

It can be "FTP-like" in that team members will be able to put stuff in it, and public will be able to view it. We could set up a mount of a separate bit of cloud with costs which may be better cost structure for large media than our normal pod service. Whatever it is it should be running the solid protocol, not FTP, please.

[ericprud]

I'm holding out for Z39.50. WAIS forever!

[bourgeoa]

From @theRealImy

For Solid World we want to host the slides of the presenters. Links you find here: https://solidproject.org/events (this was the initial reason why we wanted the ftp) The second reason were the videos from solidOS: https://solidos.solidcommunity.net/public/SolidOS%20team%20meetings/SolidOS_team_videos.html

There are no reason to not use a pod. A pod can store quite easily any type of file.

• videos are rather big. 1 hour recording on jitsi is between 1 and 2 GB. I feel we should make them apart

  • compressed with a very easy tool like handbrake should make them under 500 MB
  • example Solid-Operating-System On 2021-12-01 18-29-1.mp4 before 740 MB and after 279 MB https://drive.infomaniak.com/app/share/205611/2b34759d-9723-4297-841b-3e09abd302b0
  • 500 MB is the limit for Vimeo free plan so we may need to split some videos in parts

• Slides from presenters. We can have a small app that can

  • upload a zip file and keep it for future download
  • unzip in a folder per presentation
  • solid-ide or solid-filemanager can do that, or we can have a dedicated app stored on the pod (based on solid-file-client) to zip/unzip

[jaxoncreed]

Is this still a priority for the team?

[timea-solid]

Theoretically yes -> we wanted to store some learning videos (which are now on personal people's drop boxes) and the Solid World presenter's slide for people to call them up when needed.

[jaxoncreed]

This would be solved with the completion of https://github.com/solid/team/issues/3 as we could just put the videos on the Solid Pod.

[timea-solid]

For some reason the Solid Pod was not a viable option - maybe upload limit... not sure what the reason was anymore.