[OLPC-AU] Video Chat activity

Sridhar Dhanapalan sridhar at laptop.org.au
Mon Mar 21 10:14:27 EDT 2011


On 12 October 2010 12:54, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> There's an experimental activity to allow video chatting between XOs:
>
>  http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305
>
> Open Video Chat is a continuation of the development of the Video Chat
> activity, originally created in Australia:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat
>
> Given that so many children in remote Australia have hearing
> impairments and are dependent on sign language, I can see great
> benefit to this activity. Please assist to develop and test this
> activity.
>
> More informaton:
>
>  http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/centerforstudentinnovation/2010/06/21/open-video-chat-unveiled-at-ntid-technology-symposium/
>  https://fedorahosted.org/OpenVideoChat/

It looks like Red Hat and others are also thinking of facilitating
hearing impaired people:

http://blog.laptop.org/2011/03/14/redhat-rit-sign-language-videochat/

Sridhar


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