[Chicago] Python devs to help out CHIRP Radio?

Joshua Herman zitterbewegung at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 02:36:30 CEST 2011


I have worked with android . I have an app in the market
http://www.appbrain.com/app/redtxt/com.aconsapart.redtext . I could
see what I could do.


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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Kumar McMillan
<kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> My dear ChiPynauts,
> I'm looking for some devs who can provide me with a quote to work on
> the open source apps that power http://chirpradio.org/ .  We don't
> have much in the way of funds but in addition to compensation we can
> provide tax breaks and we can offer free tickets to concerts :)
>
> Python devs: We're looking for someone to write a web app that the
> music director can use to import new music into our digital library
> weekly.  We already have a strong foundation laid where mp3s are
> scrubbed and cataloged.  It just needs an easy to use web front end.
> The code is a modern Python project using hotness like virtualenv/pip
> and has a pretty good test suite and documentation.  It was mostly
> written by Googler and digital library expert Jon Trowbridge.
>
> If someone reading this also happens to work in Android / Java, we're
> looking for help getting audio working in 2.2+ devices for our Android
> app https://github.com/chirpradio/chirpradio-android/  That's step
> one.  After that we may iterate on audio in older devices and other
> features.  The code is based on the open NPR app code and we're
> looking forward to collaborating with NPR on this.  We just aren't
> very good at Android ourselves :(
>
>
> Here's a little more about CHIRP Radio.  We're a 501(c)(3) non profit,
> we broadcast 21 hours a day and our mission is to play new independent
> music that doesn't get a fair voice in radio.  We also focus on the
> local Chicago music scene.  We are fully run by volunteers; there is
> no paid staff.  No joke!  Thus, we only have a small budget to work
> with but we've exhausted our volunteer resources for these projects
> above.
>
>
> thanks for reading and let me know if you have questions,
> Kumar (Tech Director at CHIRP)
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