[Chicago] Python devs to help out CHIRP Radio?

[Kumar McMillan]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Brian Herman <bherma3 at uic.edu> wrote:
> What kind of concerts?

CHIRP gives away tickets on the air so we have a partnership with a
lot of venues in Chicago.  As part of this deal we always have an
allotment of tickets to give to staff.  They aren't always big name
bands and usually they are local bands but free is free!  I looked on
our list for the upcoming week and these are the tickets we have
access to. Hollows, Runnies, Radar Eyes, and JC Brooks & The Uptown
Sound are some of my favorite groups in Chicago right now.

Braid
Hollows
Radar Eyes
The Runnies
Royal Baths
Outer Minds
Jealousy
An Acoustic Evening With The Weepies
YAWN (RECORD RELEASE) w/ Guests
REDGRAVE (7" RELEASE)
Coupleskate
Planetsexploder
JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound


>
> 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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> Brian Herman
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