On 10/22/2002 - 04:46:47, Richard Bown  said:
> On Monday 21 October 2002 20:21, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > But am I just wasting my breath because the Agnula crew are going to
> > do all the work for us?
> 
> Oh well _now_ you come on to my pet subject.
> 
> > Anyone from the Agnula project have a position on this?
> 
> A while ago I got involved in a flamespat with the head honcho of AGNULA 
> when I suggested that they should improve their communication with the 
> rest of the LAD community and specifically with the development teams. 
> I think we'd pretty much all like to know what's happening with AGNULA 
> (apart from the minutes of their meetings) and naively I saw it as 
> their job to tell us and be nice to us.
> 
> While they do have selective communication with those that they consider 
> to be key people I think my fundamental mistake was to actually think 
> of AGNULA as an organisation.  While it appears to be an organisation 
> it's really just a tech project - it's run by geeks and it will aim to 
> deliver some packaged apps and code in the time allowed.  Once it's 
> packaged it'll ship and LAD type projects will get exposure to the rest 
> of the world through their distro.  AFAICT that's the deal.  While 
> that's not a bad deal of course I think AGNULA should have more of a 
> personality and a PR role with and in the LAD community.  I've said in 
> the past that I think it'd benefit "them" and "us".
> 
> But hey.  I'm not going to get on my hobby horse again over that one.  
> No chance.  No sir.
> 

Too late :)

So we are not wasting our time to debate this.  There is a real problem 
that the professional side of this community is not really taking into 
account. 

I was sceptical that the Agnula team would be doing massive promotional 
campaigns. 

Peter you said that if we intend to make money out of Linux Audio we 
*should* be paying for it. Well doesn't that alsao apply to studios and 
professionals who intend solely to use the finished products to make money?

Patrick.







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