Miss-Delectable
New Member
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2004
- Messages
- 17,164
- Reaction score
- 5
Red Hat teams with RIT to help deaf children | Triangle Business Journal
Raleigh-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is sponsoring open source workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology this summer that have the potential of improving technology for deaf and hard of hearing children.
Three RIT students who are alumni of the Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience workshops have developed an open source prototype video chat package to produce smooth sign language video for One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptops.
One Laptop, a nonprofit that provides inexpensive laptops for children in developing countries, provides laptops that have not had video quality sufficient for sign language feeds. The laptops, which are the size of small textbooks, have built-in wireless capabilities.
The organization recently updated their technology to a maintained version of Fedora, Red Hat’s community-supported open source software, which allowed for the development of the video chat for One Laptop.
Raleigh-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is sponsoring open source workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology this summer that have the potential of improving technology for deaf and hard of hearing children.
Three RIT students who are alumni of the Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience workshops have developed an open source prototype video chat package to produce smooth sign language video for One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptops.
One Laptop, a nonprofit that provides inexpensive laptops for children in developing countries, provides laptops that have not had video quality sufficient for sign language feeds. The laptops, which are the size of small textbooks, have built-in wireless capabilities.
The organization recently updated their technology to a maintained version of Fedora, Red Hat’s community-supported open source software, which allowed for the development of the video chat for One Laptop.