Hi, A couples months ago we started a forum at linuxmusicians.com . Our aim is to bring Linux musicians together and help each other to make music on the Linux platform. We want to promote FLOSS software for making music. We also want to make making music on Linux more accessible for newbies and less computer minded people. We think a forum is a good platform for this. For making music on Linux, we need of course good software. To inspire and help people to become a Linux audio developer, we launched a special part for developers on our forum, which you can find here: http://linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=44 As mentioned before, this should be a good and accessible place for newbie programmers. But we also like to invite more experienced developers to share their stuff, knowledge and help some newbies with their first steps. Would be cool if some more experienced programmes will visit the forum sometimes a month (for example) and give some feedback to newbie programmers or projects. If someone like to write an article about how to become a Linux audio programmer and how to start, you're very welcome! We are aware of the fact that there is also a linux-audio-dev mailinglist and IRC channel. We also think the Linux audio development community should operate as centralized as possible. So people can learn from each other and make a good interaction between different apps and projects as good as possible. That's why we wrote a short introduction in which we make new developers aware of the existence of these places. http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=780 We hope we can inspire young and talented people to become a Linux audio developer. We hope that you guys will support this initiative and are willing to help new developers find their ways in the world of Linux audio development. Kind regards, \r