[linux-audio-user] Linux audio hardware market research [was: creating a wiki "soundcard experiences" site]

[David Stephens]

James 

Would you care to help with this project. Considering your experience
with PHP and MySQL and Wiki?

We are attempting to build a database of sound card issues and
compatiblity and in general track what is in use out there OS,
Hardware, etc.. It would encompass MacOS/X and Linux and what the heck
BSD users and Pro/Semi-Professional audio applications.

David


On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:43:42 +0100, Marek Peteraj <marpet at naex.sk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 11:06, MarC wrote:
> > what about creating a wiki website to submit "soundcard experiences"?
> 
> This also seems like a good idea to me, and it would be cool to have  a
> knowledgebase like that.
> 
> However i think that doing a survey in order to measure how big the
> linux audio market is is a different project.
> Similar to what David did, i imagine that a RME (or M-Audio) customer
> would submit his name, optionally email, choose type of his card from a
> list, and enter approx. date of purchase so that we can track the growth
> of the market(thus it's possible to roughly estimate its future growth).
> Also we'd need to announce it to a broad range of people, LAD/LAU/LAA,
> ALSA-dev/user/site, and Slashdot i suppose, so that we reach as many
> such customers as possible.
> Let's also not forget about OSS users which are also linux users.
> (I personally reckon a few people from #lad having troubles with alsa,
> they switched to oss for that reason).
> However, since i've got no php experience and very little mysql
> experience, i can't tell how hard it would be to do such a sumbit/log
> system.
> 
> Marek
> 
> 


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