[Fedora-music-list] GSOC announced

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:06 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<znmeb at znmeb.net> wrote:

> Yes ... once upon a time there was an audio project called AGNULA (A
> GNU Linux for Audio or something of that ilk). It started before
> Ubuntu forked Debian and came in two flavors - Debian (.deb) and Red
> Hat (.rpm). I'd love to see some kind of distro-agnostic audio tool
> set, along the lines of what I'm attempting to do for computational
> journalism. That said, I've had to drop openSUSE and Mageia from my
> target distros and focus on Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu.
>
> The gotcha here is that students might find packaging boring, unless
> the task somehow involves building tools for dealing with the
> cross-distro issues. Along those lines, it's been a while since I
> looked at the openSUSE "Open Build Service" tool set - maybe that
> wheel's already been invented.

Another thought I just had - talk to some students at CCRMA, IRCAM,
David Cope's program at UC Santa Cruz, Berklee, etc. and see if they
want to package their favourite technologies that satisfy Fedora's
constraints on licenses, etc.

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