I'm extremely excited about the number of people who are in attendance for the Brightcove Sitecore connector. This was as you may or may not know a labor of love for me since it's built off of my open source library Sukiyoshi on Google Code.
Agency Oasis did add a number of features into the original connector such as automated system syncs, video sublayouts, patch configuration file, the analytical tracking for player events, tighter process queue control, the lucene search fields and the use of snippets instead of web controls.
I'm at Sitecore Symposium in sunny Las Vegas and I'm going to be writing a series of articles covering the developer track that I'm attending. I'll be trying to live blog where I can.
So far I've met a lot of great people starting with the New England Sitecore user group that filled the plane I was on to get here. There's also a lot of great partners like Oasis, where I originally cut my teeth, and Velir. There's also a lot of great tech companies in attendance like Brightcove who is obiously near and dear to my heart.
It's Sitecore's largest most energetic showing. There's also a record number of people in attendance. All in all the event should be a standout for not only the developers who already love the platform but especially for the clients who are coalescing around Sitecore to power their growing web strategies.
update on 9.13.2011 - Sukiyoshi's open source license has changed to the MIT open source license.
update on 3.8.2012 - Sukiyoshi has been updated to work on Sitecore 6.4 and up and has a specific release for it you can jump over to the Sukiyoshi open source repository for the specifics.
Over the past few years I've been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work with Brightcove and was given a development account for their platform that I could work against. In that time I went and took the existing .NET SDK Tanaris that had implemented the video read methods and blew out the rest of the read and write methods for the videos and playlists. I ended up learning a lot and had started my own branch of the code. I named it Sukiyoshi, after my wife. I did a lot of work on Sitecore sites at the same time and after having built More Interop with Douglas Couto, which used a lot of video, I realized that being able to outsource the video management aspect of a Sitecore website could have greatly simplified our task.