Hello everyone, next week, on July 10th - 13th, the LinuxTag, Europe's largest GNU/Linux exhibition and congress, takes place again in Karlsruhe, Germany, and once again several LAD "members" will be there with a booth to demonstrate what some of you/us have developed in the past :-). I'd like to invite anyone to come along, say hello and have some tech babble with us :-). We, that is: - Jörn Nettingsmeier, your faithful mailing list adminstrator - Julien Patrick Claassen, showing text-mode applications (Ecasound, Csound etc) - Matthias Nagorni of SuSE, author of AlsaModularSynth, KAConnect and other tools and docs - Takashi Iwai, one of the main authors of ALSA - Josh Green from California, developer of the Swami soundfont editor (once called Smurf) - Conrad Parker from Australia, author of the Sweep sound editor - he will also have a presentation of Sweep during the public congress. - and yours truly. Also, some developers of the Glame editor (Richard Guenther, Alexander Ehlert, Daniel Kobras) will be there (probably on Saturday/Sunday), and also Werner Schweer, author of the MusE MIDI sequencer, will be there at least one day on the weekend. As in the last 2 years, our main focus will be to bring some of the really great sound apps to public attention, help with install problems, spread information on ALSA and Jack, exchange knowledge amongst ourselves, and of course also to have a good time - with a little chance to actually make some music :-). But even if you'd not visit our booth (shame on you!), the LinuxTag is a great place to be. _IF_ you plan to come and don't want to spend a few Euros on the entrance fee (yes, it's not completely free anymore since last year), be smart and register at the LinuxTag's homepage which will result in a PDF generated for you that you print out and take with out as entrance ticket. It's even under the GPL :-). Weird concept, I know, but the idea is not that stupid after all - at least this keeps some of the kiddies away (those who visited former LinuxTag events know what I mean). For any and all information regarding the place, travel, accomodation and so on, please visit http://www.linuxtag.org. Unfortunately, the booth planning is not finished yet, so I cannot say right now what our booth number will be - but it shouldn't be hard to find. Officially on the exhibitor list, we are named "Linux Audio". Hope to see you there, Frank