Re: [Consortium] Wider scope for linuxaudio.org: home audio

Daniel James wrote: Home audio is not included in this phrase of the "About"-text: "emphasis on professional tools for the music, recording and broadcast industries." My suggestion is to explicitely add "home audio" to this list. As far as I see it one of the main issues in digital home audio is to promote the use and development of open standards which are useable for Linux- and Open Source-based home audio systems. A standard is not really open if you have to pay thousands of Dollars to be able to read and use it or if a company can "embrace-and-extend" it to monopolise it's position. I think that quite a few of the companies which could be interested can be found on these two lists: Members of the UPnP Forum http://upnp.org/membership/members.asp Members of the "Digital Living Network Alliance" http://www.dlna.org/about/roster The list of UPnP Forum members is especially broad because there are no membership fees (membership in the DLNA costs a lot). Companies like AMD, BridgeCo or Transmeta could be asked. Also quite a few consumer electronics-companies (such as Phillips or Samsung) for obvious reasons are not happy with the current dominance of Microsoft in home audio and video. That is why they created their own organisation: Universal Home API http://www.uhapi.org/home Those companies are not on any of these lists: Slim Devices (not using Linux in their current devices but has grown an Open Source community around their SlimServer software - which is implemented in Perl. They might be interested in closer connections to the Linux Audio community) http://slimdevices.com Sonos (using Linux in their devices) http://www.sonos.com PONTIS digital entertainment (using Linux in their MediaServer MS300) http://pontis.de/site_e/home_e.htm Cheers, Andreas