Dear all, as announced earlier on this list, the 2nd LAD conference will take place April 29th - May 2nd 2004 at ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Center for Art and Media) Karlsruhe, Germany. http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/eventszkm2003.php3 lists presentation material and reports of the 1st conference. See http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/eventszkm2004.php3 for more information on the 2nd conference. Many participants of the 1st conference have already confirmed their participation for the 2nd one. Frank and I would now like to collect abstracts for planned talks so that we can set up a preliminary program. We would like to have this available as soon as possible so that we can advertise the event in computer music journals (such as german Keyboards ;-) and linux journals (Dave, Daniel, are you listening ?). If you plan to give a talk on Linux audio development or do a presentation of music you have done with Linux software, please send an abstract to both me and Frank Neumann (Frank.Neumann_AT_st_DOT_com). Please estimate the time you need for your talk so that we can set up a preliminary schedule. We have now three different locations for presentations: The lecture hall we used for the 1st conference, some seminar rooms and the Kubus, which is considerable larger than the lecture hall and has a built-in studio. The seminar rooms can be used for LAD internal presentations and discussion. The Kubus is ideal for presentations of high public interest, especially practical demonstrations of audio software. The lecture hall will be used for technical talks on software development. In short terms: Kubus is LAU, Lecture hall is LAD. More rooms imply the option of scheduling parallel sessions. We can only decide on this after we know roughly how many presentations are to be expected. This is another reason why early registration is helpful. Given the excellent conditions at ZKM and the many improvements of Linux audio software, the second conference promises to be even more successful than its predecessor. Matthias -- Dr. Matthias Nagorni SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 phone: +49 911 74053375 D - 90429 Nuernberg fax : +49 911 74053483