Re: [Consortium] Affiliation of linuxaudio.org?

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?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Daniel James &lt;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.