[Consortium] SPAM: Re: free software at the tonmeistertagung 2008 - a retrospection

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Allow me to reverberate everyone else's compliments. Many thanks Sebastian
for organizing this as well as for an opportunity to present on behalf of
Linuxaudio.org. It has been indeed a great pleasure seeing old friends and
meeting new faces. Let's make sure to keep in touch and hopefully
follow-through at least on some of the great ideas suggested below.

P.S. I am forwarding this to the consortium list. Hope no one minds :-)

Best wishes,

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Assistant Co-Director, CCTAD
CHCI, CS, and Art (by courtesy)
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
ico at vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:gabler at tonmeister.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:39 AM
> To: Armand Klenk
> Cc: Jörn Nettingsmeier; Herbert Gnauer; Ivica Ico Bukvic; Paul Davis;
> bubestinger at fsfeurope.org; martin rumori
> Subject: Re: SPAM: Re: free software at the tonmeistertagung 2008 - a
> retrospection
> 
> Hi Armand and all,
> 
> the roundtable has been filmed and will be streamed from the
> conference's website in a couple of weeks, AFAIK. I have no idea why
> there was two cams, btw. Seems like some effort.
> 
> Besides that, Dieter Kahlen from Studiomagazin was quite interested. He
> came to the roundtable and took a lot of photos. I think he will give
> the LINUX session a highlight in his conference report.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -S
> 
> 
> Armand Klenk schrieb:
> > Hi Sebastian,
> >
> > I have seen two cameras in our conference hall. Did the VDT videotape
> > all presentations? Is it possible to get a copy of these recordings?
> >
> > Armand Klenk
> > SAE Institute Munich
> > Bayerwaldstr. 43
> > 81737 München
> > aim: armando2604
> > mailto: a.klenk at sae.edu
> > work: +49-89-550 686-0
> > mobil: +49-177-972 52 44
> >
> > SAE Gesellschaft für Studiotechnik mbH
> > Bayerwaldstr. 46
> > D-81737 München
> > Geschäftsführer: Andreas Grotloh
> > Amtsgericht München, HRB 99983
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 18.11.2008, at 12:38, Sebastian Gabler wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Jörn,
> >>
> >> thank you very much for the enthusiastic feedback, but even more to
> >> all of you for your committment to make this happen. I have really
> >> enjoyed these days with all of you, and I hope that it has been
> >> satisfying for everybody, as much as it was for me.
> >>
> >> The idea to leave an even greater footprint on the convention next
> >> time is appreciated. I second this, indeed. The main target is
> >> however to keep going, as once you have come back a couple of times,
> >> outreach increases.
> >> It is true that it was difficult to tell what the audience will be.
> >> Nevertheless, I am more than satisfied with the considerable numbers
> >> of listeners we had. We had between 35 and 60 people in the audience,
> >> which is remarkable on the last day of this conference that has app.
> >> 900 people per day, 4 venues in parallel, and the exhibition on top
> >> of that. Moreover, we had considerable feed-back from these people.
> >>
> >> As some of you know, it was not that easy for me to make this happen,
> >> as there are some people in VDT that ask for reaching out to new
> >> horizons, but at the same time have difficulties accomodating these.
> >> I will forward all the applause to the organisational team, and I
> >> hope that this will contribute to continuing with another round of
> >> libre solutions for TMT 2010, or even earlier. I.e., VDT has regular
> >> seminars. And, as I said, I will investigate if VDT can apply for the
> >> membership in Linuxaudio.org. I hope that at the end of the day, we
> >> will see significantly increased profile of libre solutions in
> >> professional audio, recording, and electronic arts.
> >>
> >> My very best to all of you from Vienna,
> >>
> >> Sebastian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jörn Nettingsmeier schrieb:
> >>>> hi everyone!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> very likely i'm speaking in all our names when i say:
> >>>>
> >>>> kudos to sebastian for putting this linux audio track together!
> >>>>
> >>>> to me it has been a great experience and it was absolutely
> >>>> enjoyable, in
> >>>> so many different aspects: as a small linux audio community meeting,
> a
> >>>> very insightful technical conference and a high-quality summary of
> all
> >>>> that's interesting at musikmesse, but without the infernal noise!
> >>>>
> >>>> i had many very good discussions with companies and developers
> >>>> interested in linux audio, and some of the projects i heard about
> feel
> >>>> like they might actually turn into something very useful indeed. and
> >>>> even those who won't hopefully left an imprint in some rear part of
> >>>> some
> >>>> brain somewhere that there is this thing called free software and
> >>>> people
> >>>> are doing professional audio with it.
> >>>>
> >>>> sebastian, please give my thanks to the other members of the
> >>>> organisational team of the tmt, especially to mrs jungen (whose
> >>>> enthusiasm about the whole thing was totally inspiring).
> >>>>
> >>>> if it is at all possible to repeat the free software/linux audio
> >>>> part at
> >>>> the tmt 2010, i would love to be of assistance. i'd also gladly
> >>>> help out
> >>>> with connectivity issues and wlan coverage.
> >>>>
> >>>> in retrospect, i believe that we did very well, but that one
> >>>> problem was
> >>>> that none of the presenters (with the possible exception of armand
> and
> >>>> martin) really knew what kind of audience to expect (whether to
> >>>> focus on
> >>>> usability, feasibility as a drop-in replacement for existing studios
> >>>> etc, philosophy, community or technical aspects). at least that was
> my
> >>>> feeling. but all in all, i think we covered all of those aspects with
> >>>> the broad range of talks that were given. if only every interested
> >>>> person got a taste of all those aspects!
> >>>>
> >>>> for the (hopefully) next time, i think we should try and get an
> >>>> exhibition booth together in addition to presentations, do some
> really
> >>>> hip shit there that catches people's attention, and focus more on
> >>>> individual discussions and q&a than on presentations, since the linux
> >>>> background of the audience is probably too diverse for some papers to
> >>>> have much impact. for audio topics, we can safely assume a very
> >>>> thorough
> >>>> background in every audience member, but with linux, it will range
> >>>> from
> >>>> "thinks that it's a detergent" to "writes drivers and has a question
> >>>> about real-time scheduling". it will always be very hard to cater
> >>>> to all
> >>>> of them, and if we specialise even more, our audience at tmt will be
> >>>> very limited indeed.
> >>>>
> >>>> i picture something like the early linuxtag efforts that ultimately
> >>>> lead
> >>>> to the LACs, possibly including a live video stream and a projected
> >>>> chat
> >>>> window, to give the tmt visitors an idea of what an online user and
> >>>> developer community feels like.
> >>>>
> >>>> has anyone taken photographs at tmt and is willing to share them? i
> >>>> brought my camera, but never got around to using it. sebastian, i'd
> >>>> love
> >>>> to see the tmt effort mentioned on the linux-audio-* lists and also
> on
> >>>> sursound - in case you're writing a report anyway, would you post
> >>>> it? if
> >>>> not, let's put something together.
> >>>>
> >>>> (just a few thoughts while the tmt is slowly wearing off and my
> >>>> brain is
> >>>> recovering. and yay! - i just finished following up on all the
> >>>> business
> >>>> cards i've gathered. phew.)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ico, peter, martin, herbert, sebastian, i hope you had safe trips
> home
> >>>> (i know paul and me had).
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> hope to see all of you at LAC 2009 in parma,
> >>>>
> >>>> best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> jörn
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >