Cooperation

We believe in freedom of content and code. That’s why we release all the Filmaster code (that is mostly django and python) on a libre AGPL3 license and allow anyone access our code repository in a read-only mode (more on this subject soon!).

All the content is published under Creative Commons Attribution license to allow free distribution and modification of anything our users create.

Welcome to the free world!

How can you help?

Easily. Check out Filmaster.org, the developer's community wiki, get an account at the issue tracker, set up the environment (which shouldn't take more that 15 minutes if you follow the set up instructions precisely) and get going!

There is a lot of cool stuff going on at the moment, mainly thanks to our great contributors:

• Jakub is working an an enhanced version of the recommendations engine. Feel free to comment on his conception described on the wiki as New recommendation engine.
• Witold is planning to migrate the code base from Subversion to Git in order to make it easier to manage and provide a better tool for a distributed coding project like this.
• Turin is working on enhancing the search features, tagging and a single page to follow all the answers to your posts and reviews.
• And you may take one of other cool planned features like the integration with TV programme and local cinema schedules, adding a ClerkDogs-like "film DNA" feature, e-mail/SMS notifications about upcoming shows that are on user's wishlists and many more, perhaps just the ones that you think that are missing from the roadmap.

But... I can't code! Am I useless?

Quite the opposite! There are fortunately many things that you can do if you can't help us programming:

• Translate Filmaster to your native tongue! We have two language versions at the moment: English (launched at May 24th) and Polish (running in beta since January 2009). You can create the one for your language and either work with us or set up your own instance of the service and work independantly. The power of open source, that is!
• Become a moderator of the English version of the website. There are thousands of things that need to be done manually, like tagging the movies, editing the official movie descriptions, correcting the current data and many more. You don't need to do all :>, just a little help will do. With a strong community we can do amazing things, I assure you.
• File bugs if you find them, suggest new features and -- what is most important -- advertise the website to your friends, so that they can join and help us well!

OK, but... where is the catch?

Sorry to disappoint you, but there is none. We are simply film buffs ourselves and we think that the current websites are not good enough so we decided to change that by creating our own that will be more social, more personalized and completely free at the same time. With an open service like Filmaster this can happen and we very much hope you will like the idea and join us!

Even if you don't feel like doing much work, just sign up sign up and use the website. Rate some 20+ movies and wait for the recommendations to arrive. They may surprise you as they are actually pretty good even at this early stage. And if you would like to share your opinion about the movies you love and hate either by leaving a short note or a longer review, we would be even more delighted to see that happening!

Contact us

The information provided here is not good enough? Just contact us and ask for more!

The best way to contact us is via Jabber. Just send a message to me (michuk@jakilinux.org) or Adam (adz@jakilinux.org) and we can talk about what we can do together. You can also leave us an e-mail -- the addresses are the same. Everyone is invited to join and I hope we can quickly gather quite a numerous community of movie and software geeks and their friends to work together on this exciting project.

By the way, kudos to the founders of Identi.ca, Wikidot.com and Libre.fm for inspiration and great kudos to the Pinax project that made Filmaster possible to arrive as fast! Free software and free content is a great thing and keep doing your great work, please!