Democaster next steps

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The UK Local e-Democracy National Project has approved upgrading Democaster from a "prototype" to a "product." Our April 2006 target is to set up 5 local community webcasters on this shared low cost, open source-oriented system. In terms of "community" we are focused on local civic groups, Parish Councils, smaller local authorities, etc. with meetings or public events and audio-friendly content to share.

You are encouraged to advise our work directly or via the Webcasting CoP. This effort is being led by Steven Clift, programmed by Mentormate, and overseen by Fraser Henderson with Northlincs Net.

This page is our drafting zone for phase 2 work.

New/updated page text for the public or "user" view:

• Be a Democaster
• Democaster user help
• Democaster frequently asked questions
• About Democaster
• Democaster credits
• Contact Democaster

New/updated page text for the internal "producer" view:

• Democaster producer help
• Democaster producer frequently asked questions
• Democaster software installation
• How to produce a Democaster webcast
• How to use audio streaming software with Democaster
• How to share webcam images via Democaster

Additional content under consideration:

• Introducing Democaster - Marketing text
• Democaster outreach e-mails - Templates
• Democaster producer help video - Basic "web movie"
• Democaster and open source - Some public how we did it details
• Democaster audio format discussion - Ogg, MP3 discussion