[cr-india] GRINS v0.2 released

[Aaditeshwar Seth]

Dear all,

We are very pleased to announce the second release of GRINS, Gram 
Vaani's broadcast system for community radio stations. This builds upon 
the v0.1 release we did in June 2009 by adding support for telephony, 
backup, and log-shipping, plus smoothing out many user interface issues. 
Having a single console to schedule broadcast, make and receive phone 
calls, archive live speech and manage content sets GRINS apart from any 
other commercial or open-source radio broadcast software available so far.

The current support for live telephony allows the radio jockey to 
receive phone calls, converse with the caller, and optionally put them 
on air. Conferencing can also be set up across multiple callers if more 
than one phone line is available at the radio station. This means that 
the radio stations can do interesting applications, for example, have a 
doctor stay on line and invite community members to call and ask 
questions, or have agricultural experts and mediators stay on line and 
answer questions, etc. This also means that syndicated broadcast can be 
enabled across multiple GRINS stations by having them call each other!

In future releases, we will add support for SMS and Internet connectivity.

To read more about GRINS and download/installation instructions, please 
visit our website: http://gramvaani.org/news/software/

GRINS is open-source and available free of cost. GRINS v0.1 has been 
running at Radio Bundelkhand since the last few months, and we will be 
doing a few more installations at other CR stations soon.

regards
Aaditeshwar

Gram Vaani Community Media
http://gramvaani.org