[LAU] Audio Distribution Proposal...

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:09 PM, jrogers<jrogers at of-one.com> wrote:
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>> Message: 28
>> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:54:22 +0300
>> From: Asmo Koskinen <asmo.koskinen at arkki.info>
>> Subject: Re: [LAU] ubuntu realtime.
>
> I did not take quotes from the following link because the whole thing deserves
> a (re)read
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2009-April/004507.html
>
> This bummed be out so I had to quote this:
>> Almost down for the count, Cory K.
>
> The note was a plea for help so I would like to see what we can do.
>
> There are so many things to discuss and so many possible directions to go in…
> Just thinking about it can be overwhelming…
>
> Free (not free beer, but “freedom”) is wonderful, but it ironically can be
> more paralyzing than “confinement”, so let me start with a simple and self
> limiting proposal:
>
> I tried to write this list a few times, and every time it got too long and
> complicated. At the risk of being flamed here is my “simple” list:
>
> - Manual install (like arch Linux) is fine and probably preferred. (manual is
> fine, but complete default instructions would be needed)
> - specific hardware (i.e. motherboard, video card and audio interface) is fine
> - most/all of the “popular” audio apps with a kernel that combined to create a
> system that was extremely stable and had reasonable latency (less than 10ms?
> Or maybe less than 7ms? What ever can be done with reasonable and reliable
> settings?)
> - I would donate at least $100 per year (If a thousand people joined me that
> would be $100K… Could one person full time, or several people part-time sign
> up for that?
> - I would donate a few years in advance… say three years… (If this would help
> someone/some-few decide to do this)
> - I would also help out. This assumes the individual or small core team would
> dedicate sufficient time to partition the tasks in a way that would facilitate
> widespread involvement.
>
> Questions:
>
> Ignoring resources (money, people, etc) is it reasonable to build and maintain
> such a distribution?
>
> Is $100k per year enough? If not how much is needed?
>
> Are 1000 users at $100 reasonable to expect? How about 2000 at $50? Or 500 at
> $200 (I would consider donating $200/year) Strike that… If this existed today
> I would donate $200.
>
>
> I know that the conventional wisdom is that Linux audio is not for “new Linux
> users” but I think that is the root of the “chicken/egg” problem that we have
> here. A predictable, stable, reliable audio distribution may generate the
> support that the particular distribution (and Linux audio in general) needs to
> get to the next level.
>
> Can we “prime this pump” with a conservative but very useful distribution?
>
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Seems that this thread's energy got shorted out somewhere.

Too bad. Fun read.