Consortium October 2008

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Hoping to be member of the Linuxaudio.org consortium

by Ismael Valladolid Torres

[1]Linux AV is my blog on the multimedia experience using GNU/Linux and free software. Once I was listed in the [2]Linuxaudio.org members section, but my link was erased probably because I stopped the blogging activity. The blog is back since weeks ago, and AFAIK is the only blog in spanish devoted entirely to Linux audio and video work. 1. http://linuxav.blogspot.com 2. http://linuxaudio.org/members I'd be glad and honoured if the link to my site was recovered there. Thanks in advance. Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres GnuPG key: DE721AF4 SHS Polar (3.4.3) Google Talk/Jabber/MSN Messenger: ivalladt(a)gmail.com C/ Emilio Vargas 1 Jaiku/Twitter/Skype/Yahoo!: ivalladt Edif. Fiteni II AIM/ICQ: 264472328 28043 Madrid (Spain) The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer. Las opiniones expresadas representan las mías propias y no las de mi empresa.

15 years, 5 months

Re: [Consortium] Affiliation of linuxaudio.org?

by Daniel James

Hi Mike, > Thank you for reaching out and proposing we can work together. I would > like to take this to our team and circle back next week. > > Sound good? That would be great, thanks! I am cc'ing this reply to our consortium mailing list, to keep everyone at linuxaudio.org in the loop. Cheers! Daniel > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Daniel James <daniel(a)64studio.com > <mailto:daniel@64studio.com>> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > I got your contact details from the page > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Join regarding corporate membership. > > About five years ago, I helped found a nonprofit consortium of > companies, Free Software projects and institutional users involved > in audio on the Linux kernel. linuxaudio.org <http://linuxaudio.org> > now has over fifty members, including most of the major players in > the Linux audio scene. > > We'd like to affiliate linuxaudio.org <http://linuxaudio.org> to the > Linux Foundation, in order to raise the profile of audio development > in the kernel community, ensure solid audio driver support for newer > hardware, and recruit the larger corporate users of Linux audio to > the Foundation. > > Several flagship products in the professional audio industry are now > built around the Linux kernel, and yet audio driver development has > very little funding. Just two paid ALSA developers, working for > Linux Foundation member Novell since its acquisition of SUSE, have > written almost all of the audio drivers in the kernel. It's a > struggle for them to keep up with all the new audio hardware on the > market, which threatens desktop and embedded market adoption - > particularly in the creative industries, where drivers for higher > quality audio hardware are required. > > In addition, recent kernels in the 2.6.2x series have suffered > performance regressions with regard to real-time audio, which could > damage the reputation of Linux as a solid platform for professional > audio work in the recording and broadcast industries. > > Do you think it would be possible for us to work together? > > Cheers! > > Daniel James > Director > 64 Studio Ltd.

15 years, 6 months

LAC2009 website on line

by Fons Adriaensen

Hello world, A first edition of the LAC2009 website is now on line at http://lac2009.linuxaudio.org Apart from the initial announcement you'll find there the calls for papers and music, and some related documents. More information will be added in the coming weeks. The site is (surprise !) hosted by linuxaudio.org, site administrator is Robin Gareus, with design and layout by Christoph Haag. For the paper submission and review we are again using openconf, with Frank Neumann at the controls. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa.

15 years, 6 months

Canorus status update (V0.6/0.7)

by Reinhard Katzmann

Hi, It's been a while since we did some status update. The project is running well though my own time frame is extremely tight in the last an the coming weeks. We had some nice summer time in Slovenia, details about this on out Wiki: http://canorus.org In October I made some progress on the current export / printing to PDF issues I encountered. Also many other things are being improved for the coming release. Our release plan is for early 2009 thereby skipping version 0.6 the current development. My hope is that we can release some kind of alpha/beta in november. To sum up the features we work currently on (or are already finished): - Printing (via SVG currently using lilypond backend, poppler is too much troublesome in this regard) - Print preview (PDF via SVG lilypond backend) - Midi input (note entry via midi keyboard) - Export to PDF and SVG - Transposition - Dialog for keyboard settings (both midi and normal keyboard are planned) - Settings for printing and preview - new resourse subsystem so resources (images/sound) can be added to a score document - finally we have tuplet/triplet support! - PPA Interface (for CLI and (python) plugins) is making progress On the bad side: Ruby support is currently broken A beta version will surely have printing support in a simple way but the settings are something I will start working on after that first. Any question/help offers (we still search for active developers especially on non-Linux platforms like Mac or BSD) are welcome! Please contact as on our Canorus development mailing list if you are interested. Kind regards, Reinhard Katzmann -- Software-Engineer, Developer of User Interfaces Project: Canorus - the next generation music score editor - http://canorus.berlios.de GnuPG Public Key available on request

15 years, 6 months

Sponsors for prizes

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, As per the previous message regarding the template competition I am seeking sponsors for prizes that can be given to the winners of the design competition. However I am also seeking sponsors for a higher level of award that is now well overdue. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ All of us have used Linux Audio tools for our businesses and have a debt of gratitude to the Linux Audio Developers community. There are some very specific names that deserve official recognition for their motivation, dedication and all round superstar qualities. I would like to see the next Linux Audio Conference as the inaugural awards ceremony for Linux Audio Developers, Musicians, and Supporters. I am proposing a series of awards that will be sponsored by members of the Consortium. Obviously there will be a lifetime achievement award but we also need a couple of other categories. Some suggestions are: Developers: Best Audio recording software Best Midi software Best DJ software Best Sequencing software Best Plugin Most Active contributor Most Active evangalist Best Blog Best Forum Users: Most likely to receive a record contract Most popular track on LAM Best Electronic Track Best Classical Track Best Pop Track Best Rock Track Best Audio recording The list could go on.... Once we have a list we will take submissions from the public Then we have two choices. 1: It will be upto the consortium board to select the recipients in a private vote. 2: We keep the process completely open if there is enough will for it. But this would require a good voting system. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - Obviously we can't give a prize to everyone who deserves it but we can make it an annual ceremony that will give people recognition and may also encourage more people to get involved in the community. - I can see an opportunity for logo placement and write ups in the various audio magazines who will no doubt run spots with the details once we give them the press release as there are a few members who already have good connections to get things printed. - There will also be opportunity for logos to be displayed on the official websites during the competition and of course the goodwill generated by returning something back to the community is priceless. - I will not set any limitations for the prizes that can be offered. I think it really depends on how much value you receive from the community and how much of an impact you would like to make by sponsoring. After all this is the inaugural ceremony so there are bound to be some hiccups along the way and we don't want to promise anything or set the bar too high. For what it is worth my company Boost Hardware is sponsoring $US500 for the template competition. I think there are some deeper pockets or at the very least some cooler prizes. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Feel free to contact me off list with suggestions or pledges. I will start building out the details on the lau.linuxaudio.org subdomain this weekend. As soon as I have a pledge your company logo will receive a prominent spot on the site. If you want to sponsor the template competition I will put the prize details up immediately but specific details for the awards will be kept secret until we have some momentum. Also if you want to sponsor a specific award that will be great. Just remember that the bigger the prize the more likely it is that people will notice it and remember. Booby prizes are welcome too though and will be fairly distributed so don't feel embarrassed if you don't offer as much as the next guy. Everything counts and makes the event more memorable. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.

15 years, 6 months

LAO website and competition

by Patrick Shirkey

Hi, The linuxaudio.org portal is the official home for Linux Audio Developers, Linux Audio Users and the Linux Audio Consortium. There are several other projects that are hosted on the server as subdomains. In general they work independently of each other and have no specific theme that is officially mandated. It is time to change the mandate to have a more general theme or thread woven into the templates of the various sub domains that identifies the projects as being part of the portal and reflect the worldwide nature of the Linux Audio Community. If anyone has ideas, suggestions or feels creative enough to design a template that can be used as a basis for the theme we always welcome your input. To make it a little more fun we will run a competition for the design. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The competition will be hosted here: http://lau.linuxaudio.org http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org You can get a feel for the existing sites by checking out the linuxaudio.org portal http://linuxaudio.org/resources The prizes will be officially presented at the next Linux Audio Conference where the winners will also be announced. The Linux Audio Conference 2009 16-19 April 2009 La Casa della Musica Palazzo Cusani Parma, Italy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To start things off Boost Hardware will sponsor $US500 to be distributed for the prizes. I am also seeking offers of sponsorship from any businesses that work with Linux Audio software and community projects. There are a few of you out there so don't be shy. This is a great opportunity to show your support. The deadline for submissions will be the 31 Jan 2009. All submissions will need to be licensed as open source. The official decision for the winners of the prizes will be made by private vote of the Consortium board. It will be entirely in the discretion of the Consortium board how to apply the designs/ideas/templates or concepts that are finally selected. No members of the consortium board or sponsors will be elligible for prizes but submissions will still be accepted. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We will provide more detailed information as the deadline approaches. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.

15 years, 6 months

linuxaudio.org

by Robin Gareus

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey Linuxaudio.org'ers, It's been a while, and we're behind several announcements.. First of all: linuxaudio.org is doing fine. Second I'll briefly mention a statement of our Director: Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote : "We need to start thinking about the function of the management board. This aspect has been all but dead. How about we announce restructuring of the board and go from there? My suggestion is to retain the core of those of us who are most active and then add key figures in the community who will be active contributors to our cause." No surprise there. Further discussion may or may not follow on http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/consortium/ - and last but not least: Holger Ballweg has stepped forward and done an amazing job updating http://apps.linuxaudio.org/. We went on to http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/ which is finally due an official announcement: * http://wiki.linuxaudio.org open to public (openID/CAPTCHA) Everybody is welcome to use this wiki for gnu/Linux and FLOSS audio related projects or communication. Feel free to ask for additional permissions or plugins. - send your project application or suggestions to LAD, start writing a wiki page about it or send a patch ;) We would like to support maintained and moderated namespaces adopted by members of the community; balancing http://linuxaudio.org/members in favor of interest groups. We have neither intentions nor budget to take on wiki.ubuntu.com or wikipedia. Commercial interest is tolerated. Professional interest in linux-audio is more or less a prerequisite. The usual exceptions apply for Music, Art, etc. see http://linuxaudio.org/policy ..and we're not going to stop there. Here's a quick overview of HTTP services, vhosts and tasks. Any comments and suggestions are appreciated; as is help getting there: * http://lad.linuxaudio.org - will be consolidated into drupal (www.linuxaudio.org) and wiki.linuxaudio.org. - Apart from the http://lad.linuxaudio.org/events/ (lots of pictures and media) there's only 16 HTML pages. - similarly lowlatency.linuxaudio.org should become an entry-point to the wiki. * http://lad.linuxaudio.org/events/ should be merged with http://lac.linuxaudio.org * http://portal.linuxaudio.org, http://linuxaudio.org, http://lac.linuxaudio.org/ Drupal CMS is edited and maintained by the consortium. We're urgently looking for 2-5 Content Maintainers (and Guitarists) so that some of us can take a holiday break. Besides in the longer term we're looking for volunteers to summarize or comment on a LAD/LAU thread once in a while, and editors to write short articles in the likes of kerneltrap.org. * http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/ is actually the same as http://apps.linuxaudio.org/wiki/ - vhosts will be merged, redirect.. linuxaudio.org is going to stick to /international english/ for wiki pages - We'll gladly link to non-english LAO sites - If you're in need we can provide hosting or bandwidth/mirroring solutions for these. * http://apps.linuxaudio.org/wiki/request bookmarklet in beta test. Easy way to submit new apps. * http://lau.linuxaudio.org and http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/ probably remain as is. There are a lot of hidden resources there! - Maybe some minor updates on the front-page. point to the wiki or portal. * http://ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/ - great as it is. * http://ccmixter.linuxaudio.org - for a short time.around http://www.linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2007/11/15 we set up a bare-bone ccmixter.org intended for Music-Made-With-Linux. Should you desire to style and maintain a ccmixter community: here's your chance. * http://radio.linuxaudio.org/ Anyone interested? shall we stream random songs from lam.fugal.net ?! repeat talks from the LAC? or better no-stream than some weird random mix? * for http://forum.linuxaudio.org/ we started collaboration with http://linuxmusicians.com/ If you don't like the current style/template: We're challenging web-designers to come up with a better one. The consortium-site is a http://drupal.org ; apps & wiki a http://dokuwiki.org CMS. - get in contact with us on the LAD mailing list. thanks for your attention, robin for the linuxaudio.org team. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkC6XoACgkQeVUk8U+VK0LZ3QCfRoifdS/+k45baQANmAofT1EE OBMAn3QKOooayPyH1L0YMjfOxCmk8XhB =zRe3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

15 years, 6 months

LAC 2009

by Fons Adriaensen

La Casa della Musica invites all Linux Audio developers, users, composers, musicians, philosophers and anyone interested to The Linux Audio Conference 2009 16-19 April 2009 La Casa della Musica Palazzo Cusani Parma, Italy The LAC will go outside Germany for the first time, but we will keep close to the familiar four-day format with paper presentations, workshops, electro-acoustic music concerts, and the Linux Sound Night. The website is being created, and 'calls for everything' will be issued before the end of this week. The conference starts a few weeks later than the previous one, which allows the deadlines for everything to be moved as well. For the papers and music calls this will be somewhere mid January, so you can use the end-of-year holiday period to get creative. We hope to see you all in Parma ! Fons Adriaensen, LAD Francesca Montresor, CdM

15 years, 6 months

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