+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | ______ ______ _ _ _ | | /\ / _____) ___ \| | | | | /\ | | / \ | / ___| | | | | | | | / \ | | / /\ \| | (___) | | | | | | | / /\ \ | | | |__| | \____/| | | | |___| | |_____| |__| | | | |______|\_____/|_| |_|\______|_______)______| | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ [Sorry for cross-posting. Feel free to forward around] Florence, 28 April 2005 +++ Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings are available The proceedings for the 2005 edition of the Linux Audio Conference, held at ZKM in Karlsruhe from April 21 to April 24, 2005, are now available online. Among the many excellent papers that were presented during what is by now the most famous conference of the Linux Audio scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in. +++ The proceedings for the 2005 edition of the Linux Audio Conference, held at ZKM in Karlsruhe from April 21 to April 24, 2005, are now available online. Among the many excellent papers that were presented during what is by now the most famous conference of the Linux Audio scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in. The first paper, "AGNULA/DeMuDi - GNU/Linux and Free Software for the pro audio and sound research domain" by Bernardini, Cirotteau, Ekanayaka and Glorioso focuses on the AGNULA/DeMuDi GNU/Linux distribution - where we are and where we are going from now on. The second paper, "AGNULA Libre Music - Free Software for Free Music" by Fugazza and Glorioso, is a description of the AGNULA Libre Music web database. We encourage you to download the papers at: - AGNULA/DeMuDi - GNU/Linux and Free Software for the pro audio and sound research domain http://lac.zkm.de/papers/bernardini_et_al.pdf - AGNULA Libre Music - Free Software for Free Music http://lac.zkm.de/papers/fugazza_glorioso.pdf Last, not least, please do download and read all the other papers. The wealth of material presented during this edition of Linux Audio Conference was impressive and is welcome sign of maturity for those who wish to professionaly use GNU/Linux systems for audio/sound production and/or research work. The proceedings are available online at: http://lac.zkm.de/proceedings.shtml +++ About AGNULA: Agnula (acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio distribution, pronounced with a strong g) is the name of a project funded until April 2004 by the European Commission (number of contract: IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical mass). After the end of the funded period, AGNULA is continuing its work, aiming to spread Libre Software in the professional audio/video arena. Big thanks to the following institutions for their help in supporting AGNULA: - Firenze Tecnologia <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it> for paying Free Ekanayaka to work full-time on maintaining A/DeMuDi; - KTH Department of Speech, Music and Hearing <http://www.speech.kth.se/> for housing and supporting the main AGNULA server - IRCAM <http://www.ircam.fr> and CCRMA <http://ccrma.stanford.edu/> for providing mirror space and bandwidth - Red Hat France <http://www.redhat.fr/> for supporting the A/RehMuDi distribution Best regards, -- The AGNULA Team info(a)agnula.org Our mailing lists: http://lists.agnula.org/ Our web site: http://www.agnula.org/ "There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"