Hello, This was one thing I have always tried and dreamed of doing with our e-libraries projects, but due to lack of funding and many other reasons could not really work out.
Taking into account the scenario of Nepal and the resources available, if we just rely on communication medium such as ethernet to transmit high bandwidth content such as video then we must be missing something, as these will definitely run over UDP and we will definitely lose data on the way. My suggestion would be preparing a well constructed set of video for education, health, etc (which I pressume have been already made by various distributor in kathmandu, saw a lot of dvd in KTM market for SLC etc.) and deploying these video to the destination. Only updates will be transferred over a reliable channel. For all other live conferencing etc. Using P2P communication protocol would be good idea, skype would be good example of such software, but would not prefer using it, as it is under proprietary boundary. http://tinychat.com/ would be one option, and for geolocation, we can either use twitter API for geo location or even google latitude is there. Just to summarize, if we are thinking of taking classes sitting in KTM to guys in Jomsom, at runtime, than I don't think its realistic considering the resources available. But sending in the video tapes and timely updates, and chatting through an IRC, tinychat for queries would be good way to go ahead. That's how open University around the world works as well. Regards Akash Deep Shakya On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Hempal Shrestha <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear FOSSians, > > In continuation to my previous message in this regard, this is a request > email from Mahabir Pun himself. Please do convey directly to him (Mahabir > dai and Rajendra ji) for both suggestions and volunteer positions. > > With thanks in advance. > > Hempal Shrestha > > ************ > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mahabir Pun <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM > Subject: About developing video conferencing software > > Hello Friends, > > Many of you might know that I am desperately trying to develop video > conferencing system for a few years for tele-teaching. I am not doing it for > fun but to meet the dire shortage of qualified teachers (Science, Math and > English) in rural schools. Moreover, we are also planning to provide health > training to the rural health workers by some doctors living in Kathmandu > through tele- health training as well. I am talking to the government to > start a pilot project for rural health training through video conferencing. > Therefore, multi-destination video conferencing is greatly needed. However, > buying proprietary software is not economically possible for our project. > Therefore we need to use open source. > > Right now we are working on two open source software - BigBlueButton and > Open Meeting. Some students from Kathmandu University are working on Open > Meeting. I am working on BigBlueButton. have installed BigBlueButton open > source software in a dedicated server in local network in Pokhara and tested > it. I have attached a screenshot of the testing I did two days ago. In the > photo you can see the photos of three guys in the video conference meeting > and I am giving a power point presentation to them. The photo in the middle > with people trying to push a rock was the power point slide. The three guys > in the meeting were at different districts (Nangi, Jomsom, Ghandruk, which > are at an air distance of approx. 40, 85, and 22 KM far from Pokhara in 3 to > 5 hops) and were connected through wireless. I was in Pokhara. Also you can > see the chat box, where we can do chatting. The web camera can be turned off > and on as needed. > > Except the voice, everything worked fine. There is lots of delay in the > voice and we need to work on that. I will test the conferencing system at > least in 16 sites. We need to customize it in different ways to meet our > needs. > > I am forming a team in Kathmandu and Pokhara from graduate and > undergraduate students of Kathmandu University and Pokhara University. We > are looking for programmers, computer scientists, supervisors interested to > help us for this project. If you are interested or if you know anybody, or > if there is any other way you can support, please let me know. I will tell > how you can help. We will have to set up working place in Kathmandu and > Pokhara for the software development if necessary. Right now we don;t have > funding for office set up, but I will try to what I can do. > > I have also attached a Google Earth photo of the sites where we will test > the video conferencing for tele-teaching and tele- health training. > > Also please suggest if you have any other open source software in mind. > > Mahabir Pun > *********** > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Hempal Shrestha > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> This is a request (message below) that was forwarded to me by Rajendra >> Poudel from ENRD, who have been working on Nepal Wireless Project along >> with Mahabir Pun. As per the preliminary discussions, this is a kind of IT >> volunteers with basic stipend support. Just in case you want me to connect >> you with them or know more about the work, please do not hesitate to write >> to me. You can directly contact with Mahabir dai himself or Rajendra ji >> (sooner the best), the contact details are; >> >> *[email protected]* >> >> *[email protected]* >> >> Office telephone : 977-1-4428090 (Mr. Rajendra Poudel) >> >> Mob : 9841-592361 (Dr. Mahabir Pun) >> >> With Best regards, >> >> Hempal Shrestha >> >> ****************** >> >> Vacancies for the IT professional volunteers to develop Multi-casting, >> Multi-destination web based video conferencing system >> >> >> E-Network Research and Development (ENRD) is a non-profit organization >> working for expanding Nepal wireless networking project started by Himanchal >> School, Nangi. Since 2001. Thanks goes to international volunteers who have >> significantly supported and contributed since from the starting of building >> wireless network in the mountain. Not only building of physical >> infrastructure but ENRD has been equally given importance to develop various >> applications such as tele-teaching, tele-medicine including with local >> e-business which are useful tools for the social delivery services. Since >> from the starting ENRD has been gathering all the university students, >> academia and professional researchers to build such system from one desk. >> >> This time also ENRD is planning to customize open source multi-casting; >> multi-destination web based video conferencing system by the huge >> participation of national / international researchers, technology >> practitioner, IT professionals, and university academia and college >> students. >> >> There are many open source web based web applications available in the >> market they can be customized according to our needs and requirements. For >> example you can see them in the given link. >> >> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software> >> >> ENRD is planning to customize such application to achieve following goals. >> >> >> 1. >> >> User friendly end user Interface with localized version. >> 2. >> >> Decrease the existing delay in audio and video transmission during the >> time of live conference. >> 3. >> >> Decrease the bandwidth consumption from the application side. >> 4. >> >> Integrate the white board features in the system. >> 5. >> >> Improve the scalability features in the system for many users. >> >> More information about the application can be seen from here >> >> *http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ* >> >> If any person is interested to apply in these positions should have >> following skills. >> >> 1. >> >> Basic skill to play with Ubuntu Linux Operating system , web server >> and bash/Perl etc scripting >> 2. >> >> Advance level of skill on HTML5 and CSS >> 3. >> >> Medium level of skill on web based application JAVA programming, >> PHP/MySQL, etc. >> 4. >> >> Medium level of Knowledge on SIP, ASTRIK and VoIP. >> 5. >> >> Knowledge on Multimedia such as audio, video encoding is recommended. >> >> The project period is divided in total 3rd phase (total 7 months) >> >> First Phase – 2 months (Research, System design and analysis) >> >> Second Phase- 2 months (Coding) >> >> Third Phase -3 months (debugging and implementation, development of >> manual) >> >> Volunteer should work under the guide line prepared by project coordinator >> and should have capability of self study by surfing internet, such as >> collect related information, and participate with many online discussions >> groups to gain knowledge for developing the system. >> >> Upon the necessity the organization will organize online/offline or hands >> on training on the advance issues. >> >> Position name: Volunteer, Team Member >> >> Venue of work: ENRD office at Lazimpat, Kathmandu >> >> Time of work: Daily 8 hours (including 1 hour Lunch time) >> >> Holidays: Government Holidays >> >> Volunteer support cost will be provided according to the roles and skill >> level of the team members. >> >> 1. >> >> Assistance team member – NRs. 7000:00 >> 2. >> >> Team member – NRs. 8000:00 >> >> No other services or facilities will be offered from the project. >> >> *Note: After successfully completion of the project: Team members >> (volunteers) will be awarded by the certificate of achievement from the >> implementing organization. * >> >> ****************** >> > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
