Ask The Programmer Episode 265 - Guest Mark Franklin Shares OpenAV: AV from an IT Perspective

About this episode

Mark Franklin discusses the development of OpenAV, an IT approach to AV systems, with hosts James King and Steve Greenblatt.

James King and Steve Greenblatt welcome Mark Franklin, Senior Director of Computing Services at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, to discuss how the common approach to AV system design, programming, deployment, and management was not working for him and his team, leading to the creation and development of the "OpenAV" solution, an IT approach to AV systems. OpenAV can be found at https://github.com/Dartmouth-OpenAV/. Mark Franklin can be emailed at mark.j.franklin@dartmouth.edu. To join the conversation or have your question answered on a future episode, join the Ask The Programmer group on LinkedIn and post a message, leave a comment, or reach out to us @AV_JamesKing or @stevegreenblatt on LinkedIn, X/Twitter, or Bluesky, and be sure to include #AskTheProgrammer. The Ask The Programmer podcast can be found at @AVProgrammerPod on X/Twitter or on Bluesky as @asktheprogrammer.

People in this episode

Hosts: James King, Steve Greenblatt

Guest: Mark Franklin

Topics covered

• AV systems
• IT approach
• system design
• programming
• deployment
• management

Keywords

• AV system design
• OpenAV
• IT perspective
• Dartmouth College
• Mark Franklin
• AV programming
• system management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, OpenAV, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Bluesky

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