Mural selected for Grant for the Web funding

October 24, 2020

Mural has been selected as a Mid Level Grantee in the Grant for the Web program, jointly administered by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Coil.

Our project, titled "Web Monetization in the Arts" seeks to implement support for the emerging Web Monetization Protocol in Mural, as well as doing outreach work to people in the arts community. We also plan to greatly improve the Mural editor, as well as to implement various improvements as suggested by the Mural community (you can help by giving us feedback in the user survey on our homepage).

Mural at Media Party 2020

September 23, 2020

Naomi Aro

Recently Mural was just at Media Party 2020 where our own Douglas Arellanes was holding the session Building visual stories without a CMS using Mural, while I was manning the chat answering all text based questions you had about Mural!

Mural at Mozfest 2019

October 27, 2019

Naomi Aro

Mural's session Making open multimedia stories with Mural at Mozilla Festival 2019 was a lot of fun for us here at Mural. It was the first time Doug, Pete, and I had been together in the same room for ages!

What We've Learned Making Mural

June 4, 2018

Douglas Arellanes

Mural is a tool for creating visual longform stories. The Mural software is marking its official launch this week, and it’s been a pleasure to work on it as with the support of the Google Digital News Initiative’s Prototype Fund. As our project is open source (AGPL), we figured that it would be good to extend our transparency and share with you some of the things we’ve learned along the way.

Introducing Mural

July 6, 2017

Douglas Arellanes

Imagine the scene: Two friends, Douglas Arellanes, (that’s me) and Pete Haughie, are sitting in a bar on a Serbian mountaintop in April at 3am. They haven’t seen each other in person for several months but have been excitedly talking online about two new digital projects that had been making waves in the journalism and web design space for a long time already. After a few local pivo and rakija the gesticulation and conversational excitement starts to mount. “You know that New York Times thing? I reckon we could do that with our platform.” boasted Pete. “Oh yeah?” I challenged, “How long do you reckon that would take?” Pete’s beer sloshed over the side of his glass as he shrugged, “I dunno, six months maybe?”. I decided to call his bluff and gave him a retainer and some time. Six months to be precise.