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

[MarC]

Now that there is a skeleton of a page where everybody should be able 
put their experiences about their cards
(see my post: [linux-audio-user] sound card linux documentation 
wiki+forum site),
I think that these pages will be visited (I hope...) by the owners of 
these cards, so adding there some kind of "optional form managed with 
php and mysql to be completed by the users" could help to do this survey 
to measure how big the linux audio market is.

is there any volunteer out there?

En/na David Stephens ha escrit:

>James 
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>Would you care to help with this project. Considering your experience
>with PHP and MySQL and Wiki?
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>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.
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>David
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>On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:43:42 +0100, Marek Peteraj <marpet at naex.sk> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 11:06, MarC wrote:
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>>>what about creating a wiki website to submit "soundcard experiences"?
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>>This also seems like a good idea to me, and it would be cool to have  a
>>knowledgebase like that.
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>>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.
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>>Marek
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