Our lead developer has moved to Canada. So Bentokit now has a presence in Australia and the Americas covering 16 hours of timezones.
G'day and Howdy!
If you're interested in our project, see our contact page.
The Bentokit community project is an effort to stop reinventing the wheel within the community broadcasting sector.
The project exists to foster the development of free and open source software tools for like-minded broadcasters.
At this time these tools are Retromod, a modular media management and administration system; and Flywire, a playout client. Both applications will be freely available to use and modify.
Bentokit now on amd64!
— tudorBentokit's debian repository now has an amd64 section. There's no difference at the moment, it's purely referencing the i386 version for all the people with amd64 machines. We don't see a difference needed in the retromod code, but let us know if it's a problem!
Bentokit is now on Twitter and Identi.ca!
— tudorGet the latest on Bentokit in 140 characters! http://www.twitter.com/Bentokit or http://www.identi.ca/Bentokit
Bentokit now has an Ubuntu Repository
— tudorIn our new repository you'll find retromod and getbentokit. To install the respository, just run the getbentokit.deb file, update, and install using synaptic! Flywire coming soon!
Components and Modules in Retromod
— kenmcleanUsers and Permissions in Retromod
— kenmcleanBack up and running
— kenmcleanYou might have noticed we've had some extended website downtime. A few things went wrong which required a website rebuild, and due to time constraints we put it on the backburner in favour of developing our other applications.
So the website is back, rebuilt on a Drupal platform. Drupal is a nice and flexible content management system that -- like Retromod -- can be extended through addon modules. This allows us to do several new things:
Calm before the storm
— kenmcleanThe website has been quiet since the CBAA conference in November, but behind the scenes we have been doing the hard yards to try and deliver something for you to use in 2009. Things are starting to come together, and there will be more news on both our software projects very soon, including the imminent initial release of Flywire.
The website itself is going to undergo a bit of a change in the next week; it is being shifted to a new platform that will allow it to do all sorts of funky things. I'll make mention of those things when they're more relevant. Just be aware that this site might have a few teething problems during the changeover.
More updates soon.
Cheers,
Ken McLean
2008 CBAA Conference
— kenmcleanIt has been a long time coming, but the open source software development project now known as the Bentokit Project was launched at the 2008 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia conference in Alice Springs, Australia. There was a lot of interest from radio station technologists and managers alike, indicating a lot of promise for the project.
Bentokit is a project of SYN Media, the Student Youth Network Inc.
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