3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
6:10 p.m.
(I'm moving this to linux-audio-user where the rest of this
discussion has been held. Please direct replies there)
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
At the risk of being pedantic, what is wrong with the
sound/audio section of
freshmeat?
A good question. At first glance not much.
But I do have the following gripes, and maybe some more
I haven't thought of yet ;-)
* Somewhat lacking in categories for audio/music apps.
As far as I can tell, submitters cannot influence what categories
their app should go in.
* You have to be logged in to submit anything.
In a smaller community, I think we can relax this requirement,
especially since admins will be able to undo any malicious changes.
* No source code available to the freshmeat software. (see the FAQ.)
I plan to make all my stuff open source.
* Freshmeat will probably never do cool stuff like automatically
track releases in the audio-specific distros.
* Freshmeat rejects "trivial" submissions. I can understand the reasoning,
but I don't agree with this. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/198/
* Freshmeat is too large and too general.
It doesn't give me warm fuzzy LAD/LAU community feelings.
* Banner ads. Fooey.
And finally...
* They don't have a logo with a cute penguin wearing headphones.
This is unforgivable.
All that said, since they export their backend RDF files,
we should be able to re-use a whole lot of stuff from
freshmeat, and/or use their xml-rpc api to forward our own
submissions to freshmeat. Not sure about the best way to do all this,
but I'm sure Steve will help ;-)
Dave's site is great because it is so low tech
imho.
Low tech is great unless you're the guy that does all the work :-)
I think for advocacy purposes and general coolness, it
would be nice
to have a
site devoted to linux _musicians_ where we can upload and compare tracks and
production methods. More of an extension of LAU...
Sure, the more the merrier.
But I don't want to lose focus. You can build that site if you want :-)
There has been talk on the consortium_p list of having linuxaudio.org
be a sort of portal for various subdomains which can be maintained
independently. So my proposal could live at something like
apps.linuxaudio.org or similar. A musician portal could either be
based on linuxmusician.com (yes, it exists, check it out!) or something
similar at e.g. musician.linuxaudio.org.
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4 Feb
4 Feb
6:42 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:06:12 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote
In wiki form: www.pawfal.org ? :]
(I'm moving this to linux-audio-user where the
rest of this
discussion has been held. Please direct replies there)
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote:
You can list the categories your app is listed under, but not create new
categories.
One site that goes a bit mad with the categories for sofware is the runme.org
repository : http://www.runme.org/ Check out the cloud of keywords on the right :)
At the risk of being pedantic, what is wrong with
the sound/audio section of
freshmeat?
A good question. At first glance not much.
But I do have the following gripes, and maybe some more
I haven't thought of yet ;-)
* Somewhat lacking in categories for audio/music apps.
As far as I can tell, submitters cannot influence what categories
their app should go in. * You have to be logged in to submit anything.
In a smaller community, I think we can relax this requirement,
especially since admins will be able to undo any malicious changes.
* No source code available to the freshmeat software. (see the FAQ.)
Thats kind of strange isn't it?
I plan to make all my stuff open source.
* Freshmeat will probably never do cool stuff like automatically
track releases in the audio-specific distros.
* Freshmeat rejects "trivial" submissions. I can understand the
reasoning, but I don't agree with this.
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/198/
* Freshmeat is too large and too general.
This is very true, there are so many projects there now that if you announce
your project on the front page it stays there for 10-20 minutes - a few years
ago it would last around a day.
It doesn't give me warm fuzzy LAD/LAU community
feelings.
* Banner ads. Fooey.
And finally...
* They don't have a logo with a cute penguin wearing headphones.
This is unforgivable.
Well, reason enough - you've convinced me! :)
All that said, since they export their backend RDF
files,
we should be able to re-use a whole lot of stuff from
freshmeat, and/or use their xml-rpc api to forward our own
submissions to freshmeat. Not sure about the best way to do all this,
but I'm sure Steve will help ;-)
True... cheers Dave!
Dave's site is great because it is so low
tech imho.
Low tech is great unless you're the guy that does all the work :-) I think for
advocacy purposes and general coolness, it would be nice
to have a
site devoted to linux _musicians_ where we can upload and compare tracks and
production methods. More of an extension of LAU...
Sure, the more the merrier.
But I don't want to lose focus. You can build that site if you want
:-) There has been talk on the consortium_p list of having
linuxaudio.org
be a sort of portal for various subdomains which can be maintained
independently. So my proposal could live at something like
apps.linuxaudio.org or similar. A musician portal could either be
based on linuxmusician.com (yes, it exists, check it out!)
Oh, cool - has this been announced here? Perhaps I was asleep...
cheers,
dave
................................. www.pawfal.org/nebogeo
5:27 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software with source code?
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Dave Griffiths wrote:
<major snip>
In wiki form: www.pawfal.org ? :]
That's pretty cool, but the audio section doesn't look like anbody's been
there in quite a while?
This would be nice - trying to learn how to master and record tracks with
*zero* training is difficult. Plus we could bounce tracks off each other.
Somebody post some drum and bass tracks I can play guitar to :)
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I think for advocacy purposes and general coolness, it
would be nice
to have a
site devoted to linux _musicians_ where we can upload and compare tracks and
production methods. More of an extension of LAU...
Sure, the more the merrier.
But I don't want to lose focus. You can build that site if you want
:-) There has been
talk on the consortium_p list of having linuxaudio.org
be a sort of portal for various subdomains which can be maintained
independently. So my proposal could live at something like
apps.linuxaudio.org or similar. A musician portal could either be
based on linuxmusician.com (yes, it exists, check it out!)
Oh, cool - has this been announced here? Perhaps I was asleep...
23 Feb
23 Feb
7:43 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Creative Prodikey?
Has anybody here had any experience with the funky little Prodikey
keyboard/computer keyboard?
chaz
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