Atte André Jensen wrote: So far Peter Lutek - incredible wind man from Toronto, who set up packet-in.org, has reported in as not available, Drew Roberts, a lyricist from Nassau who registered the first iteration of the group in 08 is in, Kevin Cosgrove, a drummer from Portland is in, Carlos Sanchiavedraz, a guitarist from Seville is in, Frank Pirrone (me), a vocalist/guitarist/bassist/keyboardist/hand drummer/harmonica and recorder player from Buffalo is in, and I'm not sure if we have a firm commitment from Julien Classen, a vocalist/keyboardist/synthesist from Soest, Nordrheinwestfalen, Jeff Mashaw a vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist from Phoenix, and we have yet to hear from Ken Restivo, a vocalist/keyboardist/synth-bassist/synthesist from San Fransisco. Of course, the "mission" of Packet-In is all composition, performance, and recording done in Linux with F/OSS tools. Plans are, at this point, to proceed with methodology that we employed the last two years. We'll pick a theme if possible and write to that. Tracks will be uploaded to the Packet-In server, and FTP accounts are set up for participants. Details on the Wiki at the site URL. What were you planning to do? Frank

Atte André Jensen wrote: It's a great bunch of guys - no women have applied as of yet - and excellent musicians. Well, I may have misstated the actual "working rules." The original gathering in 2008 committed to Linux, so Open Source as a requirement may not be in effect this time around. That's sounds like a worthy objective. It's not a working genre for me (I believe my heart lies most solidly within modal jamming), but I loved my Arp Odyssey when I'd just fire up sample and hold and mess with the envelope and the LFO, and let it do its thing while I attempted to layer on some coherent, scratch that and leave it at colorful, guitar work. In any event, as Drew notes, you don't need to commit to help us Packet-In. If you've got time and brain-space, check out the tracks as they are uploaded and if anything catches your fancy, contribute something and we'll add you to the attribution file (all our work's been CC by SA). Likewise feel free to play with a mix-down and offer it up for consideration - that was something where we really missed Peter last year, with him having done such a great job bringing our work alive in 2008. In any, any, event, have a great time with the challenge. Frank

drew Roberts wrote: I stand clarified. Freedom was even our "theme" for RPM09, and our CC by SA further indication... Frank

rosea grammostola wrote: Drew's voice is more authoritative than mine by virtue of his deeper involvement in these issues, but since you replied to my message, I'd say if it's GPL or LGPL it's free - along with other acceptable licenses such as Apache and BSD or whatever that wouldn't likely apply to the audio software we're talking about. If it's not, it's not. I mean, Rosea, the point is clearer than the means of circumventing or obfuscating it: The original collaboration was based upon having everything be Free - the OS, the apps, the libraries, samples, and not least the work itself. We wanted to do that for philosophical reasons and for reasons of advocacy, and as Kevin suggests, to simply demonstrate that it could be done. We produced some pretty good music, IMHO, and enjoyed each other's company, and had some real fun along the way. If that isn't proof of concept I don't know what else would be. Frank

Last year I didn't have much time and even I was not 100% (let's say) healthy. I only could put in my two cents with guitars; no other instruments and just one mix and master. Maybe this year. But I enjoyed having a great time, with great people and FLOSS-musicians. So I would encourage you to try an idea, mix, master, or just comment something in progress; it can trigger other's ideas, mixes, masters. Greetings. 2010/1/15, Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen(a)gmail.com>om>: -- Carlos "sanchiavedraz" * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 03:05:49PM -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote: Packet-In was a lot of fun; I did it for the RPM challenge in 2008. I recommend it highly if you can find the time (and I can't this year). -ken