[CoLoCo] Helping KRFC in Fort Collins with open source

[Jim Hutchinson]

I live in Fort Collins and would be happy to talk with them and help get
them started but I doubt my knowledge extends deep enough to be any great
value to them.

Jim

On 8/9/07, Dave Vanderploeg <dave.vanderploeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As long as we're on the public radio topic, I had an idea a while back
> that might work out for us.
>
> KCFR, one of Denver's public radio stations has a show on weekdays called
> "Colorado Matters". Its kind of a cheesy 1/2 hour show where they discuss
> all sorts of different things around Colorado. Some of the stories affect
> everyone and have a wide appeal, others seem more specialized, suited for a
> smaller audience. Anyway, I was thinking that after (that is to say if) we
> launch our free support page we should contact them and ask them to do a
> show about the CoLoCo users group and its free tech support. I'd say that a
> free OS + free tech support + a rich and active community right here in
> Colorado would make a fairly decent show topic.
>
>
> http://www.kcfr.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=255
>
> On 8/9/07, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:23:03PM -0600, Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
> >
> > > What exactly are they looking for? Do they just want to change
> > > office computers over or are they also looking for radio management
> > > / automation?
> > >
> > > Does anyone here have any experience with Campcaster?
> > >
> > > http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/
> >
> > I don't know what KRFC is looking for.
> >
> > At KGNU we're looking at both Campcaster and Rivendell
> > http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
> >
> > We've been running *nix servers for over a decade, and open source
> > like firefox.  We still have lots of windows desktops, but we are
> > working to move more and more to Ubuntu there also.
> >
> > The Ubuntu Studio project is also great to see:
> >
> >  http://ubuntustudio.org/
> >
> > Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> >
> > > On 8/9/07, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us > wrote:
> > >
> > >     Yo, KGNU's InfoTech committee, and the Ubuntu Colorado Team:
> > >
> > >     Does anyone want to offer help to "KRFC, Homegrown radio for
> > Northern
> > >     Colorado", the nonprofit public-radio station in Fort Collins?  Or
> > do
> > >     you know someone who could help them?  See the message below from
> > a
> > >     friend at tummy.com and note KRFC's web site at http://krfcfm.org/
> >
> > >     and their signal at 88.9 FM.
> > >
> > >     We can of course offer KGNU's online info pages as one resource:
> > >
> > >     http://kgnu.net/w/InfoTech
> > >
> > >     Cheers,
> > >
> > >     Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> > >
> > >     ----- Forwarded message from Evelyn Mitchell < efm at tummy.com >
> > -----
> > >
> > >     To: neal at bcn.boulder.co.us
> > >     From: Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com>
> > >     Subject: Looking for public radio linux help in Fort Collins
> > >
> > >     The Station Manager of KRFC called me today, they're looking to
> > move to
> > >     open source software for all their stuff.
> > >
> > >     I recalled you had volunteered at KGNU, and so I thought you might
> > know of
> > >     someone who could, or would yourself be interested in, helping
> > them.
> > >
> > >     If you do know of someone, let me know, and I'll pass the contact
> > >     information onto them, as they requested.
> > >
> > >     Thanks!
> > >     Evelyn
> > >     --
> > >     Regards,                    tummy.com , ltd
> > >     Evelyn Mitchell             Linux Consulting since 1995
> > >     efm at tummy.com               Senior System and Network
> > Administrators
> > >                                  http://www.tummy.com/
> > >
> > >     ----- End forwarded message -----
> > >
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