Wardenclyffe is a Django-based tool for orchestrating asynchronous workflows. The current implementation focuses on managing, encoding, and publishing audio/video/multimedia files. Wardenclyffe was developed at Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning (http://ctl.columbia.edu).

For a breif whitepaper on the history and origins of Wardenclyffe, see

KINO and Wardenclyffe: A framework for encoding, managing, and publishing web video

• Python 3.11
• postgres 14+
• rabbitmq
• podcast producer
• apache for production deployment
• ffmpeg (for video frame and metadata extraction)

• code is checked out into /var/www/wardenclyffe/wardenclyffe/
• /var/www/wardenclyffe/uploads/ exists
• everything under /var/www/wardenclyffe is owned by user 'pusher'