Open Tech Exchange Podcast

Episode 14 - Open Tech Exchange - Wii, Accessibility, GNome Shell and Javascript

 

In this episode we chat about game consoles and which one is best for a "light" game player.

• Wii,
• PS3

 

Darlene gives us some insight into accessibility in Gnome and Mark discusses his experience with Gnome Shell and whether Javascript will be the language that allows ordinary users to develop applications. Interesting javascript links

• gjs Gnome Javascript bindings,
• Project Phobos - Server Side Javascript

Episode 13 - Crisis Camp Calgary, Windows 7 Impressions and NoSQL

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange, Darlene and I discuss

• the success of Crisis Camp Calgary http://www.crisiscommons.org/, 
• my impression of working with Windows 7 for 20 minutes,
• Is Canonical and Ubuntu moving to the right,
• And why NoSQL won't take over the world 

 

Episode 12 - 31 Jan 2010

In this, somewhat rambling episode, we discuss:

• mdadm woes with the SS4000e Nas,
• drupal module development and "mandatory" optional modules
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      • CCK,
      • Views,
      • Drush,
      • Devel
• chromium - the google browser, now in Ubuntu repositories,
• crisis commons - Crisis Commons and the  planning of Crisis Camp Calgary, and
• apple ipad and the sun oracle deal.

11 Episode of Open Tech Exchange - 24 Jan 2010

In this episode of OTE  we chat about video cards and drivers in Linux, as well as video editing applications. We also briefly chat about the open source voip platform Mobicents.

Sites of interest for the video editing applications:

• Open Shot,
• Pitivi,
• Kino, and
• Lives

The home page for the mobicents project can be found at http://www.mobicents.org/

In this episode Mark briefly describes his experience installing Linux on an embedded device, the Intel NAS SS4000e, and Darlene shares her insights on the challenges for tech and floss in education.

In this podcast Darlene and Mark chat to Luis Lopez, an independent IT consultant, former Canonical sales engineer and prominent member of the Ubuntu Colombia about Ubuntu and FLOSS in Colombia

In this episode of Open Tech Exchange Darlene and Mark chat to Marc Lepage  Uganda Country Manager from the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD),  a non-profit foundation that specialises in information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for development.

Our latest OTE podcast. In this podcast Darlene and I discuss things that have been happening and new things that we have learnt.