OpenPhoto is an open source photo sharing and storage platform that allows users to aggregate, back up, and organize their photos without relinquishing control or portability of their photos. It provides alternatives to Flickr by allowing users to choose their own photo storage location and install the software themselves. The project is actively developing mobile apps, an API, and plugins to integrate with other photo applications.

1. Jaisen Mathai, jaisen@openphoto.me
http://theopenphotoproject.org

2. YES!!!!!!!!!!!
I never knew I
always needed this!
OpenPhoto looks like
exactly what I’ve been
looking for.
Been looking for
a Flickr alternative
for years!
This is coming along
rapidly!
OpenPhoto could be
AWESOME!
What people are saying
https://twitter.com/OpenPhoto/favorites
Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/al-mohanna/5436096181/in/photostream/

3. Your photos can be...
aggregated, backed up and organized...
without giving up control or portability.

4. The OpenPhoto Project
✦ Started in June of 2011
✦ Raised $25,000 on Kickstarter
✦ Open sourced on Github
✦ Officially part of Mozilla’s WebFWD program

5. Imagine if...
✦ You could use a photo service as good as Flickr
✦ You didn’t have to store your photos at Yahoo!
✦ You had a choice of where your photos are stored

6. Imagine if...
✦ You could sign up for a hosted service
✦ You could install the software yourself
✦ All this was portable

7. How’s it look?

8. What About Mobile?
✦ iPhone and Android app is complete and waiting to
be launched in the App Store
✦ Both are available on Github
https://github.com/openphoto/mobile-ios
https://github.com/openphoto/mobile-android

9. A Sneak Peak

10. Project goals
✦ Tools to aggregate, organize and backup photos
✦ Obsess over the user experience and interface
✦ Embrace the programmable web
✦ Provide bindings for every popular language
✦ Reach critical mass, including your mom

11. How we’re doing it
✦ Decoupling the data from the application
✦ Let users supply personal Dropbox or S3 accounts
✦ Giving ownership of the data to the user
✦ Decentralizing the hosting
✦ Federating nodes
✦ Open platform documentation

12. Installing OpenPhoto
✦ Instructions at
http://theopenphotoproject.org/documentation
✦ Amazon AMIs available
✦ Shell script can be executed to set up the entire
system
✦ Use cloud services or local filesystem and MySql

13. The Hosted Version
✦ The lazy man’s friend
✦ You can still connect to your Dropbox or S3
✦ If you change your mind and want to host yourself
you simply point to your S3 bucket
✦ Automatic upgrades and other convenient features

14. The API & Dogfooding
✦ Everything that’s been built has exclusively used the
API
✦ Webhook / Event API to build realtime applications
✦ Consistent and documented

15. Using the API
✦ Language bindings in PHP, Ruby, Python and Java
✦ Coming soon C# and Objective-C
✦ Language bindings include command line API
program

16. An example of using the API
✦ Gist to upload every photo in a directory

17. What’s Next?
✦ Plugins for iPhoto, Aperture, Shotwell, etc.
✦ Support additional backend services
✦ Video...

18. Want to help?
✦ Project website
http://theopenphotoproject.org
✦ Find us on Github
https://github.com/openphoto
✦ Contact us
hello@openphoto.me
https://twitter.com/OpenPhoto

19. Invites!
Use code webfwd at http://openphoto.me