[GRLUG] GRLUG Meetings

[Casey DuBois]

The geexbox/sightseer project is:

www.thesightseer.org

An IPAQ computer(Celeron 500 or P3-733 with 128meg ram), that was have
configured to boot off of CD running Geexbox Linux.
The solution is designed to be as hands-off as possible for use by
those with vision impairments. The PC connects over the internet to an
audio stream provided by http://www.thesightseer.org an organization
that provides a reading service to the blind and physically
handicapped.  It's a non-profit and runs soley on donations -- there
are no commericals in the broadcasts.  They've been broadcasting on a
side-channel to fixed frequency radios in the past, but also now
provide an audio stream on the web.  If you go to their web page and
click on their icon it should spawn a player for the stream.

They had the CDrom solution working but asked the GRLUG to help make a
HDD version of the solution work. It took the group a while as we did
not have the right tools but we managed to get it working.

Casey



On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wasn't at the meeting, but am very interested in the geexbox/sightseer
> project.  What was that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve R
>
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