This year the 2011 Convention will be held in Edmonton at the Shaw Convention Centre. The WABE convention; highlights the best of Radio and Television
Technologies.
We are presenting a technical paper "User Generated Radio Using Open Source To Reduce Administration and Increase Revenue"
The FNTC AGM will be held at the Coast Mountain hotel on Denman Street. The First Nations Technology Council (FNTC) was created: to ensure that all 203 BC First Nations are: connected with high speed broadband; have access to affordable, qualified technical support and have the skills needed to access technologies that can improve their lives.
We are making two presentations "Community Radio and TV Broadcasting on First Nation Lands" and "Open Source Software in First Nation Governments"
This presentation will demonstrate how to operate Radio and TV stations on First Nations lands using free open source software. "Radio Station in a Box" using free web based tools. Emergency Broadcasting will be accomplished with unattended broadcasting and alerting way off in the middle of no where. We will look at how the remote communities of Tagish and Whitehorse Yukon network our stations together and involve the community in the most efficient way possible. We will outline a simple technical scenario for hooking up a transmitter and antennae and explain the Regulatory environment to obtain a licence and clarify the exemption orders by CRTC for aboriginal broadcasting in remote locations.
This presentation will compare the strengths and weaknesses of building a network with free Open Source software instead of the proprietary Microsoft model. We will learn some of the lessons leaned in going this direction with direct experience in Yukon first nation networks. Real examples of networks include all the infrastructure running Linux including desktop applications. How it is done, what are the paybacks, does it save a lot of money, will my existing data be usable, what happens when we work with a network that isn't using Open Source, how hard was it to setup and what about all the expensive software we already own?. There are many challenges in keeping networks secure and protecting the privacy and intellectual property of the organization. During this presentation we will share some of the end user experiences gained while transitioning to this exciting alternative. How best to harness the power of Libra\Open Office, working with stability and MySql databases. There will be knowledge about how to bridge between these two different systems, what works and what the future holds for open source networks. What exactly does free software mean? Understanding the licencing and business models that make this happen. In house user generated support models that reduces dependencies from third party contractors and create knowledge bases.