14 Nov
2007
14 Nov
'07
9:45 a.m.
On Tuesday 13 November 2007 11:28 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:04 -0500, Frank Pirrone
wrote:
I suggest talking to the Internet Archive to see if they might be interested
in hosting such a thing.
The other people I can think of to talk to is the google code people.
They already do subversion hosting for code. perhaps they would host such a
project(s) and give more space to it than they do for code.
Also, I keep suggesting to the ccMixter people that they do a parallel
Free_ccMixter site that uses BY and BY-SA instead of BY and BY-NC.
If they ever decide to do that, they might be another option.
Mark Constable wrote:
This is a good idea but it will quickly eat up hard drive space and
bandwidth. I can volunteer both from two different servers if needed. up a bare Subversion repo that anyone is welcome
to use
if anyone cares to try svn out. The URL is ...
Otherwise, being able to check out the latest alternate or additional
tracks and simply substitute or add them to those already on my hard
drive would keep the bandwidth demands reasonable. Log or check in
tonight, see two new tracks there, grab them at a few megabytes apiece,
downloaded in a few seconds over my 20mb/sec fiber link, add something,
upload that and the project file in another brief upload, etc.
Not so sure about the subversion support though. I'm interested in ideas
for how to split the load efficiently.
An social network for music creation will definitely be good for
promoting Linux audio and open source software. Please keep us informed
of the progress as this could be a very powerful idea if it is managed
well.
I can see a roll for the consortium in this project but we will need a
way to make it pay for itself if it does get some momentum as the costs
will be pretty massive on a large scale.
Maybe we should be distributing via bittorrent like eletricsheep
http://electricsheep.org
Why make the server handle all the load when it can be a simple database
engine instead.
One crazy idea I have been kicking around for a while is to supply a single as
a live-cd ardour project that will boot and play automatically. (with effects
and mixdown all cued up so that what you hear is the final mix as chosen by
the cd's creator... BUT... where all the controls are sitting exposed for the
user to muck about with.
And where a musician can mute and replace any track for a jam experience. Or
whatever.
I could go on but will stop here until another time.
Cheers.
all the best,
drew