[Fedora-spins] New spin on the horizon

[Frederick Grose]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Jørn Loamx <northlomax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm one of Fedoras Google Summer of Code students. I have been tasked in
>> helping to develop an Audio spin of fedora. I just wanted to Let you know a
>> little about the project so that you have a heads up and so you know what's
>> on the horizon :D
>>
>> The audio spin is a spin that is geared for music production, and is
>> aimed at the music community. We are aiming for high usability so that if
>> someone who just makes a podcast once a week and doesn't necessarily know
>> who to configure JACK can use it with ease, but at the same time it will
>> include software that will allow bigger music productions.
>> The spin itself does not have a wiki page, but I will be making one in
>> the next couple of days with schedules, todos, roadmaps etc. but you can
>> see a brief overview at the audio_creation_spin_**development page[1]
>>
>> I'm pushing to have the kickstart file ready by June 1st, I'm hoping this
>> is a good date, as I based it on the schedule for Fedora 16 and I have no
>> idea what the schedule for fedora 18 is
>>
>> If there are any questions, don't hesitate to take contact
>>
>> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Audio_creation_spin_**development<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Audio_creation_spin_development>
>> --
>> Jørn Lomax
>> GSoC Fedora Audio
>> CS Student University of Tromsø
>
>
> For the Music Scholars section you might consider the Tam Tam suite,
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Tam_Tam
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam
>
> It includes Csound,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound
>
> One would have to include and switch to the Sugar Desktop,
> http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
> in order to use the current versions of Tam Tam.
>

Actually, sugar-emulator allows one to run Sugar in a GNOME window, so
switching would not be needed.

But, unfortunately, bugs are preventing sound emissions from Tam Tam for
Sugar in a window or in the Sugar Desktop.  (Development has focused on the
XO laptop up to now.)

          --Fred
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