Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming
devils advocate Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money. I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. And the potential user base is, what, the 1% of people in the UK with computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and want to stream video of their local council meetings. I wonder what the cost per user is? Perhaps we can get together and do a FOI request on the council to find out? /devils advocate m On 02/03/07, Glyn Wintle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39286141,00.htm When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes. ...a local council in Surrey has developed a streaming project over the last 18 months. And unlike the Commission's project, developers behind the UK version have made their service available to Linux users. Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming
Maybe it's the secret iPlayer-for-Linux-and-Mac-users dev project! -Original Message- From: Martin Belam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2007 09:27 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming devils advocate Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money. I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. And the potential user base is, what, the 1% of people in the UK with computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and want to stream video of their local council meetings. I wonder what the cost per user is? Perhaps we can get together and do a FOI request on the council to find out? /devils advocate m On 02/03/07, Glyn Wintle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39286141,00.htm When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes. ...a local council in Surrey has developed a streaming project over the last 18 months. And unlike the Commission's project, developers behind the UK version have made their service available to Linux users. __ __ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:26:59 +0100, Martin Belam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: devils advocate reality check Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money. Yes,delivering services to their whole userbase. I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. If the market hasn't seen fit to deliver a cross platform solution, maybe they had to. Or maybe they had NotInventedHere syndrome :P And the potential user base is, what, the 1% of people in the UK with computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and want to stream video of their local council meetings. No, that assumes this service *excludes* the people who run the dominant OS and media player. It doesn't. What it does is include them, and people who happen not to. So the potential user base is everyone in that area who wants to stream video of their council meetings Following your argument to its logical extreme would mean *not* providing acess to council meetings for people with physical movement problems, or who need council information in a non English form - because these, after all, don't make up the majority George PS hi martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming
It's ok, 1% of the mailing list will even pay any attention to the email at all. ;) _ From: John Wesley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2007 10:05 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming SSss!! It's a secret! On 05/03/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's the secret iPlayer-for-Linux-and-Mac-users dev project! -Original Message- From: Martin Belam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2007 09:27 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk mailto:backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] UK trumps Europe on Linux streaming devils advocate Wow, what an excellent use of council tax payers money. I mean, firstly nobody else has developed any kind of streaming video system, so I'm glad they spent 18 months building it themselves. And the potential user base is, what, the 1% of people in the UK with computers that run Linux, provided they also live in Waverley, and want to stream video of their local council meetings. I wonder what the cost per user is? Perhaps we can get together and do a FOI request on the council to find out? /devils advocate m On 02/03/07, Glyn Wintle [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39286141,00.htm When the European Commission launched a streaming video service last year which excluded Linux users, large swathes of the open source community became deeply angry. Now, a Surrey local council has shown that open source operating systems can be included in such programmes. ...a local council in Surrey has developed a streaming project over the last 18 months. And unlike the Commission's project, developers behind the UK version have made their service available to Linux users. __ __ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by Green Rating at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
