[cr-india] GRINS updates

2012-09-28 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear All, Gram Vaani is delighted to update you on the recent enhancements of GRINS. While many of you know about GRINS, for those who don't, GRINS is a unique radio automation system designed specifically for Community Radio stations by Gram Vaani. Among other things GRINS includes complete

[cr-india] Request to submit/participate in ACM DEV 2013

2012-07-09 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
computing innovations supporting social and economic development. Conference co-chairs: Bill Thies, Microsoft Research India Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Labs PC co-chairs: Richard Anderson, University of Washington Aaditeshwar Seth, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Program committee

[cr-india] Campaigns on community radio

2012-05-12 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, Last year Gram Vaani and IIT Delhi helped run campaigns on NREGA, PDS, and RTE across 5 community radio stations. A detailed report is available here: http://124.124.247.5/cr-campaigns-v2.pdf This small experiment brought out several insights: - C

[cr-india] www.crindia.in

2011-04-06 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, A few of us have put together a website to showcase CR stations in India: http://www.crindia.in We feel this will bring more attention to the CR movement, and also help people understand what community radio is all about. So far we have only profiled a few stations whom we personally

[cr-india] www.crindia.in

2011-03-23 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, A few of us have put together a website to showcase CR stations in India: http://www.crindia.in We feel this will bring more attention to the CR movement, and also help people understand what community radio is all about. So far we have only p

[cr-india] GRINS demo video

2010-10-22 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, We've been continuously adding new features in GRINS and making it more robust and easy to use. Do go through a short demo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVOLuzXljSI GRINS is now running in 8 CR stations in India. One of the b

[cr-india] Looking for rural journalism researcher

2010-09-15 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
provide the necessary training and credibility if you want to go in for higher studies Please send your CV to Aaditeshwar Seth: as...@cse.iitd.ernet.in JD for rural journalism research.doc Description: MS-Word document Join the Community Radio Forum

[cr-india] Preserving the world's languages

2010-07-22 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
http://blog.longnow.org/2010/07/21/building-an-audio-collection-for-all-the-worlds-languages/ http://www.rosettaproject.org/ Any ideas on whether CR stations or other media groups will be interested to participate? Aadi Join the Community Radio Forum. For mem

[cr-india] One media per teacher

2010-07-01 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
http://www.ompt.org/content/techproductsequipment This is a very interesting selection of equipment for field work (follow the links on the left). Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to www.crforum.in

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-04 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Cool! Actually, just a clarification from my end. When I mentioned about our work with Asterisk, I was talking about the server side, of how the radio station could receive phone calls, archive the calls, put the caller on air, etc. Andrea and Gora are talking about the client side, of how rad

Re: [cr-india] Cellphone-based community radio

2010-03-03 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Hello, We have been able to get Bluetooth enabled cellphones working with Asterisk to make and receive phone calls, but the audio quality is not too good. A better option is to use GSM PCI cards or GSM gateways: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/GSM . We haven't tested any of these solutions

[cr-india] GRINS v0.2 released

2009-12-18 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
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. Hav

Re: [cr-india] Phone in prog

2009-10-09 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
At Gram Vaani, we are building telephony support through FXO and E1 cards. These are PCI cards that go into a computer, and so calls can be received/made through software itself. Therefore stations just need to get a phone line and then plug the line into the card instead of into a telephone or

[cr-india] Invitation for using Gram Vaani's GRINS platform

2009-09-12 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, Gram Vaani released the first version of GRINS (Gramin Radio Inter Networking System) a few months back. It is being piloted at Radio Bundelkhand in partnership with DA, and has been running well since almost two months now. The current version supports playout and scheduling of rad

[cr-india] First release of the Gramin Radio Inter Networking System v0.1 is now here!

2009-06-10 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
Dear all, Gram Vaani's platform for community radio stations is now available for download. We call it GRINS, standing for the Gramin Radio Inter Networking System :D GRINS is an enhanced automation system for community radio stations. Built on Gram Vaani’s MINP platform, the current release of G

[cr-india] IB ministry ad on community radio

2009-02-26 Thread Aaditeshwar Seth
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOI&BaseHref=CAP/2009/02/26&PageLabel=9&ForceGif=true&EntityId=Ad00901&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T ___ cr-india mailing list cr-india@sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mai