Re: [Consortium] SPAM: Re: free software at the tonmeistertagung 2008 - a retrospection

Hi Sebastian, I have seen two cameras in our conference hall. Did the VDT videotape all presentations? Is it possible to get a copy of these recordings? Armand Klenk SAE Institute Munich Bayerwaldstr. 43 81737 München aim: armando2604 mailto: a.klenk(a)sae.edu work: +49-89-550 686-0 mobil: +49-177-972 52 44 SAE Gesellschaft für Studiotechnik mbH Bayerwaldstr. 46 D-81737 München Geschäftsführer: Andreas Grotloh Amtsgericht München, HRB 99983 On 18.11.2008, at 12:38, Sebastian Gabler wrote: > Dear Jörn, > > thank you very much for the enthusiastic feedback, but even more to > all of you for your committment to make this happen. I have really > enjoyed these days with all of you, and I hope that it has been > satisfying for everybody, as much as it was for me. > > The idea to leave an even greater footprint on the convention next > time is appreciated. I second this, indeed. The main target is > however to keep going, as once you have come back a couple of times, > outreach increases. > It is true that it was difficult to tell what the audience will be. > Nevertheless, I am more than satisfied with the considerable numbers > of listeners we had. We had between 35 and 60 people in the audience, > which is remarkable on the last day of this conference that has app. > 900 people per day, 4 venues in parallel, and the exhibition on top > of that. Moreover, we had considerable feed-back from these people. > > As some of you know, it was not that easy for me to make this happen, > as there are some people in VDT that ask for reaching out to new > horizons, but at the same time have difficulties accomodating these. > I will forward all the applause to the organisational team, and I > hope that this will contribute to continuing with another round of > libre solutions for TMT 2010, or even earlier. I.e., VDT has regular > seminars. And, as I said, I will investigate if VDT can apply for the > membership in Linuxaudio.org. I hope that at the end of the day, we > will see significantly increased profile of libre solutions in > professional audio, recording, and electronic arts. > > My very best to all of you from Vienna, > > Sebastian >> >> >> Jörn Nettingsmeier schrieb: >>> hi everyone! >>> >>> >>> very likely i'm speaking in all our names when i say: >>> >>> kudos to sebastian for putting this linux audio track together! >>> >>> to me it has been a great experience and it was absolutely >>> enjoyable, in >>> so many different aspects: as a small linux audio community meeting,

>>> very insightful technical conference and a high-quality summary of

>>> that's interesting at musikmesse, but without the infernal noise! >>> >>> i had many very good discussions with companies and developers >>> interested in linux audio, and some of the projects i heard about

>>> like they might actually turn into something very useful indeed. and >>> even those who won't hopefully left an imprint in some rear part of >>> some >>> brain somewhere that there is this thing called free software and >>> people >>> are doing professional audio with it. >>> >>> sebastian, please give my thanks to the other members of the >>> organisational team of the tmt, especially to mrs jungen (whose >>> enthusiasm about the whole thing was totally inspiring). >>> >>> if it is at all possible to repeat the free software/linux audio >>> part at >>> the tmt 2010, i would love to be of assistance. i'd also gladly >>> help out >>> with connectivity issues and wlan coverage. >>> >>> in retrospect, i believe that we did very well, but that one >>> problem was >>> that none of the presenters (with the possible exception of armand

>>> martin) really knew what kind of audience to expect (whether to >>> focus on >>> usability, feasibility as a drop-in replacement for existing studios >>> etc, philosophy, community or technical aspects). at least that was

>>> feeling. but all in all, i think we covered all of those aspects with >>> the broad range of talks that were given. if only every interested >>> person got a taste of all those aspects! >>> >>> for the (hopefully) next time, i think we should try and get an >>> exhibition booth together in addition to presentations, do some

>>> hip shit there that catches people's attention, and focus more on >>> individual discussions and q&a than on presentations, since the linux >>> background of the audience is probably too diverse for some papers to >>> have much impact. for audio topics, we can safely assume a very >>> thorough >>> background in every audience member, but with linux, it will range >>> from >>> "thinks that it's a detergent" to "writes drivers and has a question >>> about real-time scheduling". it will always be very hard to cater >>> to all >>> of them, and if we specialise even more, our audience at tmt will be >>> very limited indeed. >>> >>> i picture something like the early linuxtag efforts that ultimately >>> lead >>> to the LACs, possibly including a live video stream and a projected >>> chat >>> window, to give the tmt visitors an idea of what an online user and >>> developer community feels like. >>> >>> has anyone taken photographs at tmt and is willing to share them? i >>> brought my camera, but never got around to using it. sebastian, i'd >>> love >>> to see the tmt effort mentioned on the linux-audio-* lists and also

>>> sursound - in case you're writing a report anyway, would you post >>> it? if >>> not, let's put something together. >>> >>> (just a few thoughts while the tmt is slowly wearing off and my >>> brain is >>> recovering. and yay! - i just finished following up on all the >>> business >>> cards i've gathered. phew.) >>> >>> >>> ico, peter, martin, herbert, sebastian, i hope you had safe trips