On-Demand Video + CMS + Interactive Input For Museum? 131
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remolacha writes "I've been given the task of tech chief for a biggish art museum (1,300 m^2, 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 touchscreens. More interesting forms of input are planned as well (floor sensors, big buttons). It's all on one floor, and the floors are raised, so I can run cabling and set up floor ethernet jacks. Max cable 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 web server 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?"
Re:maybe hire someone qualified (Score:1, Funny)
maybe his resume included "slashdot" as a skill
Re:I've done a similar project (Score:5, Funny)
I believe the previous poster meant sound as in "well-established, robust" technologies, not sound as in "audio".
Re:Check these guys out (Score:1, Funny)
Go for SILVERLIGHT!!!
Use what works best for the project. Dont use Linux just for the sake of using it.
You can do all the touch screen stuff and video streaming using silverlight.
Re:maybe hire someone qualified (Score:2, Funny)