[OLPC India] Interesting Content

[Seth Woodworth]

Keep me in the loop if you need anything.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:22 AM, JV Avadhanulu <jv at auroville.org.in> wrote:
> Thanks for looking it up and thanks for the information on speex codec. It
> makes this more interesting.
> It is content that Tenet intends to make it freely available , hosted on
> their web site. They have some usual issues about hosting it 'well' (like
> everyone else). If we need to modify the content and host it elsewhere, we
> need their agreement, which should be possible.
> They are working on more projects as they are committed to doing this on
> long term basis and it would be good to see how we can leverage it
> Regards,
> JV Avadhanulu
> +91-9443797563
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Woodworth" <seth at laptop.org>
> To: "JV Avadhanulu" <jv at auroville.org.in>
> Cc: <india at lists.laptop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [OLPC India] Interesting Content
>
>
>> That's not too bad. I didn't dig too far into the content though.
>> Does it have a free license?
>>
>> Also, audio files are trivial to re-encode.  Using the speex codec I
>> can get an hour in about 7mb.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:18 AM, JV Avadhanulu <jv at auroville.org.in>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> In my explorations in the context of OLPAC (One Lap Top Per Auroville
>>> Child), I have come across a good web based coaching in all subjects for
>>> 7,
>>> 9, and 10th Standard with voice over done by Tenet Group of IIT Chennai.
>>> Please see http://onlinett.tenet.res.in/. I installed the Tamil Fonts and
>>> it
>>> seems to be fine on Windows. I am not sure whether the voice over files
>>> would fit into the XO memory. If you find this interesting and can
>>> OLPC-fy,
>>>  I can explore with the people in Tenet
>>>
>>> Note: The web site also has some tutorials for training in subjects such
>>> as
>>> basic computers, Photoshop, Web Authoring, AutoCad etc.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> JV Avadhanulu
>>> +91-9443797563
>>>
>>>
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