Just A Meta Server
NOTE: there's nothing useful in this project yet.
Just what is JAMS? It's not really a server. There are already plenty of servers out there; both closed and open source. There'll be a web interface (probably AJAX), but that's something I expect to run in pretty much any web server. In fact it probably won't have any actual server bits to it.
So... um, what is it? JAMS aims to be a complement to an existing server such as minidlna or mediatome (since those are the two I've been using lately) and provide an easy way for users in the household to upload, manage and consume their services; for example I'd like the rest of my family to be able to put videos on our "media server" so they don't need to wait on me.
Why? github is a nice place to back up my project so when I toast my server and backups... oh wait!... I mean to say that github is a great place to share my work with others.
So there's no server... why does it have server in the name? I'm not very good with picking names for projects... I've spent entirely too much time thing on names... JAMS is easy to remember and you can probably squeeze many 'creative' names outta that if "Just A Meta Server" bugs you. (plus I'll get a laugh when I hear folks say JAMS server...) I was calling this 'Just Another Media Server'... but the more I think about it, I don't think I want it limited to 'media'.