[linux-audio-user] opensourcemusic.info

[John Mulholland]

Thanks to all for your responses! All encouraging and hearwarming to 
read. I had heard that there were some linux audio guys at the Uni. I am 
at the little uni in Southampton though so have not met them yet. 
Perhaps if any of them are on this list and want to get in touch they 
can email me direct, or Steve would you be kind enough to pass on my 
email address to them? Thanks. To all those that have offered help, 
thanks once again. I'll email you personally. To anyone else interested 
email me off list.

Thanks again,
John

ainion wrote:

>Hey John,
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>My two year old son is named like you, actually, Andrew John.
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>I'll look up your website. Although I do not code much in PHP, I've been
>with Postnuke and now using Mambo. I can help manage your content on the
>website. Wanna exchange links?
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>Have a nice day.
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>Art Inion
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>On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 22:16 +0100, John Mulholland wrote:
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>>I am the person responsible for opensourcemusic.info.
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>>Please allow me to introduce myself. I am twenty six, and a sometime 
>>student living in Southampton, UK. I live and breathe music, and I guess 
>>I would be referred to as a geek by most of my friends.
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>>I registered the domain sometime ago. Until about two weeks ago the site 
>>was actually quite broad. There was a glossary, downloads, a reading 
>>lists, downloads (culled from sharewaremusicmachine) and lots and lots 
>>of news items (creative commons, p2p, patents, stuff like that.) I was 
>>working on getting the site to show in several different languages 
>>(using a tool called mamblefish) when it all went badly wrong.
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>>The server guys have kindly provided me with a backup with which I am 
>>looking to rebuild the site. There is some truth in the sentence that 
>>the site is run by a group of volunteers. In as much as that there are 
>>one or two other people who have expressed an interest. However, I have 
>>done the vast majority of the work on my own. And (as I am by no means 
>>an IT ninja, so this stuff takes me a long time) ... there has been many 
>>sleepless nights.
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>>I was just thinking about the site when I saw these emails pop up in 
>>Thunderbird.
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>>I would love it to be a community run (not for profit) site. This was 
>>always my wish for the site. I think a mambo powered CMS could be of 
>>great benefit.  However, I have not so far had much luck in attracting 
>>help. (This really is my fault as I am not very good at asking for 
>>help.) If people are interested in developing the site and making use of 
>>it as a community resource I would be delighted. I dont think I can do 
>>it on my own. I have neither the time, money or knowledge needed to do 
>>it justice. So far I have paid all the server bills, and I will be happy 
>>to continue to do so for as long as I can afford.
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>>Should there be no interest in developing the site this way then I think 
>>I'll do the following. Write an introductory piece for the front page 
>>for those new to open source computing, and then suggest three or four 
>>programs for each section. And then leave it that.
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>>I would like it to be used in the best possible way that benefits 
>>others. I guess this list is the best place to raise the question about 
>>its use. It's up to you all. I am not looking for any money from it. If 
>>you are interested in helping please do get in touch.
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>>Thanks all for the oppurtunity to introduce myself, and I hope this has 
>>gone someway to answering those questions. As for the programs in the 
>>wrong categories, yep thats all my fault.
>>
>>John
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>>Brett McCoy wrote:
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>>>Jan Weil wrote:
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>>>>Does anyone happen to know who's behind
>>>><http://www.opensourcemusic.info>?
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>>>>"The site is run by a group of volunteers who devote lots of time, and
>>>>many many sleepless nights." seems a little vague...
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>>>Why do they have Audacity listed under samplers and Ardour and Wired 
>>>under sequencers?  Actually, Rosegarden shouldn't be under sequencers 
>>>either... it's far more than just a sequencer.  I think 'DAW' would be 
>>>a more accruate category for these...
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>>>-- Brett
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>>>Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night
>>>http://www.chapelperilous.net
>>>http://www.alhazred.com
>>>http://www.revelmoon.com
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