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Mizizi, which means "roots" in Swahili, is an application written with the Our Stories project in mind (www.ourstories.org). Our Stories is an initiative sponsored by UNICEF, OLPC and Google that aims to collect 5 million stories by 2010 and make them available to people around the world. Mizizi provides an easy way for people to collect sories and meta-information from their personal computer and upload it to a server where it can be aggregated. Mizizi is meant to be platform-independent and is internationalized with several languages already supported.
Mizizi


What is it?
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Mizizi, which means "roots" in Swahili, is an application written with the Our Stories project in mind (www.ourstories.org). Our Stories is an initiative sponsored by UNICEF, OLPC and Google that aims to collect 5 million stories by 2010 and make them available to people around the world. Mizizi provides an easy way for people to collect sories and meta-information from their personal computer and upload it to a server where it can be aggregated. Mizizi is meant to be platform-independent and is internationalized with several languages already supported.


Languages/Technologies
Languages/Technologies
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3. Develop video capture capabilities
3. Develop video capture capabilities
4. Apply all modifications to the Win32 version as well
4. Apply all modifications to the Win32 version as well





Get the code
Get the code
http://something
http://something



Tags
Tags

Revision as of 14:51, 7 March 2008

Mizizi, which means "roots" in Swahili, is an application written with the Our Stories project in mind (www.ourstories.org). Our Stories is an initiative sponsored by UNICEF, OLPC and Google that aims to collect 5 million stories by 2010 and make them available to people around the world. Mizizi provides an easy way for people to collect sories and meta-information from their personal computer and upload it to a server where it can be aggregated. Mizizi is meant to be platform-independent and is internationalized with several languages already supported.


Languages/Technologies 

   *     Python, GTK and GStreamer
   *     Linux and Windows versions in the works


Tasks 

  1. Ensure installation and operation on OLPC
  2. Make translations of interface into as many new languages as possible
  3. Develop video capture capabilities
  4. Apply all modifications to the Win32 version as well


Get the code 

   http://something


Tags 

   python, linux, windows, gtk, gstreamer, glade, ourstories
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