[linux-audio-user] sites at linuxaudio.org

[Pieter Palmers]

Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> While I agree that linuxaudio.org sites could benefit from a sidebar or some
> other common tool that binds them more together, I honestly do not see such
> a thing happening until:
> 
> 1) community gets more involved, even if that means simple
> feedback/communication on the consortium list (i.e. recently we posted final
> proposed version of the CD cover and got no feedback whatsoever--whether due
> to apathy, disinterest, or something else, I am not sure, needless to
> mention that most of our members do not bother posting their announcements
> on the consortium list).
> 
> 2) other sites which are hosted under the linuxaudio.org do not respond as
> if their individuality is being threatened every time there is even the most
> remote allusion to the idea that there should be some kind of
> unifying/cross-linking framework for the sub-sites.
> 
> Recently, I spent a couple of days just dealing with porting of mailing
> lists (OSX server, don't get me started...), while helping Thorsten revise
> the CD cover for Vol.1 of Made in Linux Series, now I see that the main
> linuxaudio.org site needs new news posts regarding recent announcements. And
> this is how the story goes, instead of me trying to plan things that will
> have a much greater impact (i.e. fund-raising, incorporation), I am always
> sidetracked with micro-management since everyone in the LA* community thinks
> linuxaudio.org is a great idea but very few want to help out. Even the few
> volunteers we got in the fall, out of the ones who did not fizzle out, we
> are yet to get *a* contribution...

Please don't get me wrong here, I do appreciate the linuxaudio.org 
effort, and all the work you (and maybe others) are putting into it.

My emotions indicate that I want to help, but my brain keeps on telling 
me that freebob already takes too much time. I guess these sort of 
things should be done by LAU's rather than LAD's (not that LAD's aren't 
LAU's), but they might be a little to busy making music... something 
that I'd like to do a little more.

> 
> All that being said, the consortium is keeping as busy as always and is
> using whatever limited resources it has to the fullest potential. We should
> be announcing our contributions soon. Also FWIW, portal.linuxaudio.org has
> been announced on linuxaudio.org site (see main page), the one site over
> which consortium has direct control.

I suggest a link "Portal" under the "Contact" link at the left of 
linuxaudio.org.

Greets

Pieter

> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> Linuxaudio.org Director
> Virginia Tech
> Department of Music - 0240
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> (540) 231-1137
> (540) 231-5034 (fax)
> ico at linuxaudio.org
> http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic
> 
>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-audio-user-bounces at music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
>> user-bounces at music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Pieter Palmers
>> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 10:59 AM
>> To: A list for linux audio users
>> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] sites at linuxaudio.org
>>
>> Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>> portal.linuxaudio.org
>> which you have to know to find it?
>>
>> Greets,
>>
>> Pieter
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
>>> Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, and CHCI
>>> Virginia Tech
>>> Dept. of Music - 0240
>>> Blacksburg, VA 24061
>>> (540) 231-1137
>>> (540) 231-5034 (fax)
>>> ico at vt.edu
>>> http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic/
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: linux-audio-user-bounces at music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
>>>> user-bounces at music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Pieter Palmers
>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:34 AM
>>>> To: A list for linux audio users
>>>> Subject: [linux-audio-user] sites at linuxaudio.org
>>>>
>>>> I was just now looking for some links with respect to low latency
>>>> configuration to put on the freebob site. I knew that there are some
>>>> sites *.linuxaudio.org, but I had to use my memory & a gamble to find
>>>> them (lau.linuxaudio.org, lad.linuxaudio.org).
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be good if the main linuxaudio.org site had a link to all
>>>> the sub-sites available?
>>>>
>>>> Greets,
>>>>
>>>> Pieter
>>>
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