Pls reply to Robert Michel Robert.Michel@post.rwth-aachen.de FN

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Slave Alokesh, Fred & Georg,

thanks for sending radio news from India. The news"local communities, non-profit organizations and educational institutions (Universities) for educational, cultural and economic development " request the question, what is necessary for build a low budget radiostation?

The most important element becomes Software. Why not writing "free software" under GNU GPL for making radio ?

Some weeks ago I found the vision from Patrick, swiss, and started to support him: HTTP://ross.sf.net

Ross should be a toolbox, able to make a radio with one laptop only to running a big radio-network with satellite and internetlinks.

Why "free software" - there are already 3-5 commercial solutions?

- these are very expensive and keep the costumers in dependency to these software-houses. In analog times, everybody was able to replace a player "out of order", nowadays you have wait for support on telephone.

- cheap solutions used by non-profit organizations are good enought for playing music, not for journalistic work

- licence restricted software make it impossible for new people to learn using it at home.

- analog radio times was good for blind people, software based radiostations are not usable today for them.

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============== Can you help me ? ============== I'm looking for developer worldwide. People with radio experiences to saying me what regional culture of radio-studios they know, what software should be, programmer (C++), and later translator to make the software international.

Which mailing-lists, websites, radio active people do you know?

Do you have some more informations about these new stations in India? When will this start?

Thanks for your attations - a better mail for sending to mailinglist we will write next weeks. The ross-team are already 6 people with more or less time for this. (Swiss, Germany, Austrian) Would be nice to find people for ross in India, too.

Greetings form Aachen, Germany Robert