Dear all, We are very pleased to announce the second release of GRINS, Gram Vaani's broadcast system for community radio stations. This builds upon the v0.1 release we did in June 2009 by adding support for telephony, backup, and log-shipping, plus smoothing out many user interface issues. Having a single console to schedule broadcast, make and receive phone calls, archive live speech and manage content sets GRINS apart from any other commercial or open-source radio broadcast software available so far.
The current support for live telephony allows the radio jockey to receive phone calls, converse with the caller, and optionally put them on air. Conferencing can also be set up across multiple callers if more than one phone line is available at the radio station. This means that the radio stations can do interesting applications, for example, have a doctor stay on line and invite community members to call and ask questions, or have agricultural experts and mediators stay on line and answer questions, etc. This also means that syndicated broadcast can be enabled across multiple GRINS stations by having them call each other! In future releases, we will add support for SMS and Internet connectivity. To read more about GRINS and download/installation instructions, please visit our website: http://gramvaani.org/news/software/ GRINS is open-source and available free of cost. GRINS v0.1 has been running at Radio Bundelkhand since the last few months, and we will be doing a few more installations at other CR stations soon. regards Aaditeshwar Gram Vaani Community Media http://gramvaani.org YOU CAN SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY RADIO FORUM (India) BY JOINING AND TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN ONE OF THESE NETWORKS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-awareness (Awareness building) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-helpdesk (Offering help) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-policy-advocacy (Policy advocacy) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crforum-techoptions (Technical options) _______________________________________________ cr-india mailing list [email protected] https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/cr-india
