Bentokit Project

Bentokit'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!

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You 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:

The 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

It 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.

Welcome to bentokit.org, the home of the Bentokit Project: a community broadcasting initiative to colloboratively develop broadcast and media technologies for the benefit of the community broadcasting sector.

The site is a bit bare at the moment, but that will change.