I am the person responsible for opensourcemusic.info. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am twenty six, and a sometime student living in Southampton, UK. I live and breathe music, and I guess I would be referred to as a geek by most of my friends. I registered the domain sometime ago. Until about two weeks ago the site was actually quite broad. There was a glossary, downloads, a reading lists, downloads (culled from sharewaremusicmachine) and lots and lots of news items (creative commons, p2p, patents, stuff like that.) I was working on getting the site to show in several different languages (using a tool called mamblefish) when it all went badly wrong. The server guys have kindly provided me with a backup with which I am looking to rebuild the site. There is some truth in the sentence that the site is run by a group of volunteers. In as much as that there are one or two other people who have expressed an interest. However, I have done the vast majority of the work on my own. And (as I am by no means an IT ninja, so this stuff takes me a long time) ... there has been many sleepless nights. I was just thinking about the site when I saw these emails pop up in Thunderbird. I would love it to be a community run (not for profit) site. This was always my wish for the site. I think a mambo powered CMS could be of great benefit. However, I have not so far had much luck in attracting help. (This really is my fault as I am not very good at asking for help.) If people are interested in developing the site and making use of it as a community resource I would be delighted. I dont think I can do it on my own. I have neither the time, money or knowledge needed to do it justice. So far I have paid all the server bills, and I will be happy to continue to do so for as long as I can afford. Should there be no interest in developing the site this way then I think I'll do the following. Write an introductory piece for the front page for those new to open source computing, and then suggest three or four programs for each section. And then leave it that. I would like it to be used in the best possible way that benefits others. I guess this list is the best place to raise the question about its use. It's up to you all. I am not looking for any money from it. If you are interested in helping please do get in touch. Thanks all for the oppurtunity to introduce myself, and I hope this has gone someway to answering those questions. As for the programs in the wrong categories, yep thats all my fault. John Brett McCoy wrote:

I am the person responsible for opensourcemusic.info. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am twenty six, and a sometime student living in Southampton, UK. I live and breathe music, and I guess I would be referred to as a geek by most of my friends. I registered the domain sometime ago. Until about two weeks ago the site was actually quite broad. There was a glossary, downloads, a reading lists, downloads (culled from sharewaremusicmachine) and lots and lots of news items (creative commons, p2p, patents, stuff like that.) I was working on getting the site to show in several different languages (using a tool called mamblefish) when it all went badly wrong. The server guys have kindly provided me with a backup with which I am looking to rebuild the site. There is some truth in the sentence that the site is run by a group of volunteers. In as much as that there are one or two other people who have expressed an interest. However, I have done the vast majority of the work on my own. And (as I am by no means an IT ninja, so this stuff takes me a long time) ... there has been many sleepless nights. I was just thinking about the site when I saw these emails pop up in Thunderbird. I would love it to be a community run (not for profit) site. This was always my wish for the site. I think a mambo powered CMS could be of great benefit. However, I have not so far had much luck in attracting help. (This really is my fault as I am not very good at asking for help.) If people are interested in developing the site and making use of it as a community resource I would be delighted. I dont think I can do it on my own. I have neither the time, money or knowledge needed to do it justice. So far I have paid all the server bills, and I will be happy to continue to do so for as long as I can afford. Should there be no interest in developing the site this way then I think I'll do the following. Write an introductory piece for the front page for those new to open source computing, and then suggest three or four programs for each section. And then leave it that. I would like it to be used in the best possible way that benefits others. I guess this list is the best place to raise the question about its use. It's up to you all. I am not looking for any money from it. If you are interested in helping please do get in touch. Thanks all for the oppurtunity to introduce myself, and I hope this has gone someway to answering those questions. As for the programs in the wrong categories, yep thats all my fault. John Brett McCoy wrote:

Unfortunately we still have no central point where users get a good start about supported hardware and an overview over the most important software. A wiki would be cool. There's already one at alsa.opensrc.org but it's alsa specific. Furthermore there's the card matrix at http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ but I do not know how up-to-date it is.

It seems to be VERY out of date. It is also not very intuitive to use. You can't look up products to see if they will work, you have to know the exact chipset it uses. Not very useful if you are shopping for a new card.

I am the person responsible for opensourcemusic.info. Please allow me to introduce myself. I am twenty six, and a sometime student living in Southampton, UK. I live and breathe music, and I guess I would be referred to as a geek by most of my friends. I registered the domain sometime ago. Until about two weeks ago the site was actually quite broad. There was a glossary, downloads, a reading lists, downloads (culled from sharewaremusicmachine) and lots and lots of news items (creative commons, p2p, patents, stuff like that.) I was working on getting the site to show in several different languages (using a tool called mamblefish) when it all went badly wrong. The server guys have kindly provided me with a backup with which I am looking to rebuild the site. There is some truth in the sentence that the site is run by a group of volunteers. In as much as that there are one or two other people who have expressed an interest. However, I have done the vast majority of the work on my own. And (as I am by no means an IT ninja, so this stuff takes me a long time) ... there has been many sleepless nights. I was just thinking about the site when I saw these emails pop up in Thunderbird. I would love it to be a community run (not for profit) site. This was always my wish for the site. I think a mambo powered CMS could be of great benefit. However, I have not so far had much luck in attracting help. (This really is my fault as I am not very good at asking for help.) If people are interested in developing the site and making use of it as a community resource I would be delighted. I dont think I can do it on my own. I have neither the time, money or knowledge needed to do it justice. So far I have paid all the server bills, and I will be happy to continue to do so for as long as I can afford. Should there be no interest in developing the site this way then I think I'll do the following. Write an introductory piece for the front page for those new to open source computing, and then suggest three or four programs for each section. And then leave it that. I would like it to be used in the best possible way that benefits others. I guess this list is the best place to raise the question about its use. It's up to you all. I am not looking for any money from it. If you are interested in helping please do get in touch. Thanks all for the oppurtunity to introduce myself, and I hope this has gone someway to answering those questions. As for the programs in the wrong categories, yep thats all my fault. John

...which is switched off on many browsers due to security issues (and for popup blocking, of course :). The page looaks horrible in konqueror, and not every novice user will install and try firefox instead. I'd remove all the JS specific stuff. Concerning JS, I think it's OK to use a bit of JS if it doesn't affect the looks on other browsers and as long the page can be still navigated without JS. I do not agree generally :) . There are really huge efforts to make linux audio more user friendly. It's not specific for audio ;-) . I guess the page is currently under heavy development. I think it's a very good idea to create such a page so novice users can get an immediate overview over the most important linux audio applications. I'd like to share the following thoughts: * I'd remove most of the JS code * I'd resize the top level banner. It wastes lots of screenspace. No prob here (1400x1050) but I guess there are still citicens with 800x600 on the web * OK, content will be done over time I really like the idea so thanks for the work. Best regards ce