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Benefits to the Community: The better we can accommodate users across multiple languages, the farther we'll reach.
Benefits to the Community: The better we can accommodate users across multiple languages, the farther we'll reach.
=== ASL Open Video Chat ===
Open Video Chat is an Free/Open Source video conferencing activity for the XO laptop. This project was originally started in March 2010 with funding from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester NY.
'''Focus'''
The primary focus of Open Video Chat is to provide streaming video at frame rates that are suitable for communicating with sign language. This ends up being somewhere between 20 and 30 frames per second.
'''Current Features'''
* 20 FPS video
* preview window
* text chat
'''Desired Features'''
*RTP protocol implementation
*faster frame rate (30+ FPS)
*audio
*higher resolution video
IRC
* The contributors of Open Video Chat frequent #rit-foss on freenode
''Contact'': [[User:decause]]
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn about gstreamer video pipelines. Learn about sugar networking stack and services (Telepathy). Learn about Python and Sugar UI.
Benefits to the Community: The Video/Text chat software is nearly complete (90%), it just needs to be ported to latest version of sugar and include new telepathy bindings.
Source Code: [https://github.com/FOSSRIT/Open-Video-chat Github Repository]
Activity Page: [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4305 A.SL.O]