A quick update for everyone: The Beta project is now over! And, at least from my view, it went very well. After a short break, we are now gearing up here at the PublicMediaCorps to move forward and build on several of our projects. On the technology side we are getting ready to do some [...]
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Brendan Foley, Fellows, Tech Blog
What Open Source Can Do: 3D Content
Today Blender 2.55 was released to the world (although, unfortunately, the 64-bit linux version is not up yet). For those that are unaware, Blender is a Free and Open Source 3D Content Creation Suite. That’s right, you can create 3D graphics content without paying thousands, and make your content look amazing. Of course, its still [...]
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Released: Netbook Review
While its still very new, I've had a chance to fiddle around with 10.10 on one of our spare netbooks for the fellows. On the Netbook Edition side, I can say that there have been much greater changes, at least to the visual layout, than I expected.
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New Laptop and Ubuntu Studio 9.10 (Part 1)
Yesterday the new laptop for the media center came in. Needless to say I was (and still am) extremely excited to play around with the new machine and FINALLY get to do some real testing and configuring of Open Source media production and editing software for the PMC.
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As this is a media related project, and we have supplied the fellows with media production equipment, we have also needed some media editing software. Keeping in mind that we wish to use Open Source software when possible, we loaded Audacity onto the netbooks and tested some video and image editing software. Audio: We used [...]
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Here I will relate our experiences with setting up 3G usb cards with the HP Minis running Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04. We bought service and devices from AT&T (I was not involved in this purchase stage, nor with the minis, by the way). AT&T sent us LG USBConnect Turbo cards along with the sim cards. [...]
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