Dear Linux Audio developer, user, composer, musician, philosopher and anyone else interested, you are invited to the... Linux Audio Conference 2011 The Open Source Music and Audio Software Conference May 6-8 2011 Music Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Maynooth, Co.Kildare, Ireland http://music.nuim.ie As in previous years, we will have a full programme of talks, workshops and music. Two calls will be issued, a Call for Papers (see below) and Call for Music (soon to be announced). Further information will be found in the LAC2011 website (under construction). ================ CALL FOR PAPERS ================= Papers on the following categories (but not limited to them) are now invited for submission: * Ambisonics * Education * Live performance * Audio Hardware Support * Signal Processing * Music Composition * Audio Languages * Sound Synthesis * Audio Plugins * MIDI * Music Production * Linux Kernel * Physical Computing * Interface Design * Linux Distributions * Networked Audio * Video * Games * Media Art * Licensing We very much welcome practical papers resp. software demos ("how I use Linux Audio applications to create my music/media art"). Paper length: 4-8 pages, with abstract (50-100 words) and up to 5 keywords. Language: English. The copyright of the paper remains with the author, but we reserve the right to create printed proceedings from all submitted (and accepted) papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: 15/January 2011 Notification of acceptance: 7/March 2011 Camera-ready papers: 1/April 2011 Queries: Victor Lazzarini, NUI Maynnooth (victor.lazzarini(a)nuim.ie)