Concerto Template Exchange Website/Plugin

[Eric Chatham]

Good Day All,

I currently operate around 10 screens running Concerto at a manufacturing facility, primarily they are out on the floor running safety slides on Raspberry Pi's we also have some better hardware for video etc... in our Breakroom and Lobby. I did notice when I got started with Concerto that there was a very limited selection of Screen Templates. I've fiddled around with them for quite sometime and now that I have the hang of it I've made some really clean looking screens. 

I wanted to reach out to some fellow Concerto Admins and the Developers about creating a Template Exchange, where Templates could be uploaded, showcased searched and downloaded. With a possibility of integrating this into Concerto as a Plug-in down the road. I really think it would be a huge incentive for people considering Concerto as a Digital Signage Solution. I'm currently pushing to use Concerto as the standard at all of our Factories across the US. The runner up is Brightsign but my argument is definitely in favor of Concerto as I know there is a very active and engaged community always looking to improve the software. As well as the obvious cost factors. 

I've got a few spare domain names I could throw up a CMS for the template exchange. Just wanted to get some feedback to see if anyone is interested in collaborating with me on this prior to spending the time setting up the site.

Best regards,

Eric

[Marvin Frederickson]

I'd like to see them.  Sounds like a great idea.

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[August]

Hi Eric,

We’ve often talked about doing such a thing for Concerto plugins, so I think doing the same for templates is a fantastic idea. I’d be happy to work with you to get something up either on our existing site or elsewhere as needed.

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[Eric Chatham]

Well it wouldn't take much to just put up a simple CMS to host the zip files and just show a preview of the template. I have the domain myspace2.com sitting around and I haven't been doing anything with it. I'll try and get something put up this weekend. I've got around 5-10 templates I made that I could put on there. I'll update you guys once I put it up. Glad there is some interest in this idea...

On Mar 4, 2017 11:50 AM, "August" <aug...@starbase123.com> wrote:

Hi Eric,

We’ve often talked about doing such a thing for Concerto plugins, so I think doing the same for templates is a fantastic idea. I’d be happy to work with you to get something up either on our existing site or elsewhere as needed.

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August

On March 3, 2017 at 1:37:59 PM, Eric Chatham (ericmc...@gmail.com) wrote:

Good Day All,

I currently operate around 10 screens running Concerto at a manufacturing facility, primarily they are out on the floor running safety slides on Raspberry Pi's we also have some better hardware for video etc... in our Breakroom and Lobby. I did notice when I got started with Concerto that there was a very limited selection of Screen Templates. I've fiddled around with them for quite sometime and now that I have the hang of it I've made some really clean looking screens. 

I wanted to reach out to some fellow Concerto Admins and the Developers about creating a Template Exchange, where Templates could be uploaded, showcased searched and downloaded. With a possibility of integrating this into Concerto as a Plug-in down the road. I really think it would be a huge incentive for people considering Concerto as a Digital Signage Solution. I'm currently pushing to use Concerto as the standard at all of our Factories across the US. The runner up is Brightsign but my argument is definitely in favor of Concerto as I know there is a very active and engaged community always looking to improve the software. As well as the obvious cost factors. 

I've got a few spare domain names I could throw up a CMS for the template exchange. Just wanted to get some feedback to see if anyone is interested in collaborating with me on this prior to spending the time setting up the site.

Best regards,

Eric

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[Lawrence Offsite account]

I'd be happy to toss up a few - I evidently have a different (than the ones that come with) idea about suitable templates than the stock versions, in that I pretty much fill the screen with fields and don't bother with static framing at all. I just don't see a need for it. The only one I use that for is with the "Emergency" plugin to have the Emergency screen background clearly odd and garish and hopefully noticeable as such.

Some of my background image files end up just displaying as all black, and I mucked about and tried some where they do show, but ended up going back to an all-black-background as being less distracting from the content I'm trying to show...

[Marvin Frederickson]

Hey Guys-- any update on this?  Where can we see these awesome templates?