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Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum?
remolacha writes "I've been given the task of tech chief for a biggish art museum (1300 m2, or about 13,000 sq ft) in Spain. The museum's designers want 20 'terminals' that will offer on-demand video and interactive content. the terminals' content will change with the exhibits; many will have ...
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On-Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum?
Slashdot: Hardware — ... run is 60m / 190ft. The museum may expand to 4 times its projected size once open, by comandeering other floors in the building. To give an idea of where the designers heads are, they were talking about a massive dvd changer in a closet somewhere. I am thinking an intranet running a webserver with a CMS and flash media server, terminals running firefox in kiosk mode. I'd love to do everything on Linux. Does anyone have experience with a setup like this, better ideas, or advice?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

On-Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum?
Slashdot: Linux — ... run is 60m / 190ft. The museum may expand to 4 times its projected size once open, by comandeering other floors in the building. To give an idea of where the designers heads are, they were talking about a massive dvd changer in a closet somewhere. I am thinking an intranet running a webserver with a CMS and flash media server, terminals running firefox in kiosk mode. I'd love to do everything on Linux. Does anyone have experience with a setup like this, better ideas, or advice?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

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