Hello, LAD readers, I just want to give a short update on the "Linux Audio Developer Meeting" that Matthias Nagorni and I are organizing on March 14th-16th, 2003. We have been collecting suggestions for talks/presentations for the last couple of weeks, and our current programm looks quite "high-quality": --------------------- Paul Davis, Bala Cynwyd (Pennsylvania), USA: 10 Things You Might Not Have Thought About When Writing An Audio Application Frank van de Pol, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands: Timing and Synchronisation for Sequencer Applications Steve Harris, Southampton (Hampshire), UK: Digital Signal Processing and the LADSPA Audio Plugin Interface Takashi Iwai, Nuremberg, Germany: Ruminations on ALSA Drivers Jaroslav Kysela, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic: ALSA - Always on the run Matthias Nagorni, Nuremberg, Germany: Modular Synthesis with AlsaModularSynth --------------------- This list can be found at http://www.suse.de/~mana/ladzkm.html . Also, there will be some kind of opening talk/presentation at the beginning and probably some demos at the end of the respective days. The exact plans of when which talk will be held have not been fixed yet, but will be soon. There is a slight chance that we might be able to give out a live audio stream of the presentations. We will be given 3 rooms by the ZKM organization: a large lecture room (100 seats) for the presentations, and 2 smaller rooms for..well, let's call them "Hack center" for now :-). Both rooms are provided with enough electricity (so as to not cause any power failures :-), and we will also be allowed to use the ZKM's internet connection for our purposes, so noone has to feel "isolated from the Matrix" while attending the meeting :-). I am very excited about this - I believe it's the first time we manage to get together so many Linux audio programmers in one spot, and this could create a great synergy effect. It's definitely worth visiting, and if you plan to join it (as participant/developer, not as a "normal" guest), please don't forget to register with Matthias (mana(a)suse.de) or me (Frank.Neumann(a)st.com) so that we can plan the rooms, accomodation and equipment. We do not plan any particular participation fees, but people might have some costs for travelling, hotel/youth hostel and food. I will do my best to help attendees with finding a room. I believe that finding our sponsor at the ZKM was a great piece of luck - at the Institute for Musics&Acoustics they are currently using mostly Macs running software like Max/MSP, Csound, PD, jMax, but they are very interested in doing more with Linux - so this come-together really seems to fit perfectly. Already at this time I can say that we owe them a lot for making this meeting possible. Ok, that's all for now. More news will be posted here as I get them. Have a great Christmas time and a happy, healthy and successful 2003, Frank -- Frank Neumann (Frank.Neumann(a)st.com), VIONA Development Center STMicroelectronics, Karlstraße 27, 76133 Karlsruhe