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Last month, eight companies collaborated in Berlin to bring media to Drupal core during a week-long code sprint. The work done was part of the Media Initiative, which is an effort to support advanced media use cases in Drupal core. This encompasses many features including external embeds from YouTube and Twitter, native video support, and an interface to re-use and manage media assets.

The Media team concluded the exciting and successful year 2016 with a Drupal 8 core media sprint in Berlin. The sprint was hosted by the Hubert Burda media and the Thunder team. The week-long event was attended by many prominent names from the Drupal community. A lot of great progress was made, but we’re not even closely done yet. Such an effort can’t be done solely by the team of volunteers. We also need professional support and engagement to be really successful.

Media made a big leap towards a first major milestone. It's time to test what we have and help stabilise it. At the beginning of November 2015 MD Systems announced the Media initiative program that they initiated in cooperation with Ringier, Gassmann media and Südostschweiz. Initiative was kicked off with a week long sprint, which happened at first week of December in Zurich. Work didn't end when sprint was over. Together with the team at MD Systems I continued to work on most important tasks to achieve a major milestone.

Almost exactly two months ago MD Systems announced the Media initiative program that they initiated in cooperation with Ringier, Gassmann media and Südostschweiz. Initiative was kicked off with a week long sprint, which happened at first week of December in Zurich.

With Drupal 8 around the corner a lot of people started asking me when will media be ready. It was quite reasonable to expect this to start happening. Unfortunately there is no simple answer to this question. Shortest would be: "It depends.... What exactly do you need?". I know what you're thinking now... "Are you joking with me!?"

At Examiner.com we get an entire day to spend (along with contributions that we do as part of our regular work) on community contributions every other week. We call it "Drupal day" and we love it! It is our way of saying "Thank you!" to the community. We understand that we wouldn't be as successful as we are without incredible efforts that are invested in Drupal and other free software projects we use.

It's been a while since my last post and with BADCamp behind us and some very nice improvements it seems a good timing for another update. We'll discuss Core & Contrib efforts, as well as some other ecosystem considerations and how to get involved.

It's been a while since my last post and with DrupalCon Amsterdam behind us it seems a good timing for another update. We'll discuss Core & Contrib efforts, as well as some other ecosystem considerations and how to get involved.

Media team is very active. Purpose of this post is to provide the progress update to the rest of the community that might not be aware of everything that is going on in this field. I am planning to publish this posts on a regular basis. We'll see how it goes :).

Midterm evaluations for GSoC are over and I've released a short demo for the entity embed module: Introducing Entity Embed module for Drupal 8. As for the status update, the module is ready (at least for testing purposes). As it's explained in the video, the module has basically two components: a text filter and a CKEditor plugin. The filter is fully functional and though it's also nicely integrated with CKEditor, there's still some work to do in order to make the plugin more configurable.

New York city Drupal camp happened last weekend in United Nations HQ and there was, among numerous other things, Media sprint going on. Organizers did their best to bring some of the most active Drupal Media contributors on-site. We are very happy and thankful that they made this possible, as we managed to achieve some very important steps forward.

As most of you probably already know we already started to think about media in Drupal 8. Next major release of Drupal is getting closer and closer, but we still have enough time to improve media handling and fix problems that we face ATM before Drupal 8 ships.

DC Vienna was taking place last weekend with extending sprints on Monday and Tuesday. We started Drupal 8 media part of this great DrupalCamp on Saturday with a BoF. We discussed some of the current architectual decisions there and kicked-off a sprint that was happening on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. We mostly worked on basic low-level things for media entity.