Hello Niels (and everybody):
The format of the guide is not yet finalized. A wiki has its
advantages, but a "published" guide gives a large dose of credibility,
among other things.
As for a dedicated spin, I agree that this would be a great thing to
have. It is well beyond my abilities, and would probably require the
collaboration of many students and non-students. Depending on how
things progress, it might be worth further investigation next year.
Thank you for the links to existing guides. I have found a few of them
already, but it is obviously important to read widely before authoring
yet another guide.
I would like to invite the music and PlanetCCRMA communities to comment
on my (draft!) proposal, which I just posted. Any input received at
this point, in particular with the guide's final format, will be taken
very seriously. See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_-_Fedora_Musici...
Thank you,
Christopher.
On 05/09/2010 06:47 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
Here's a few existing guides for your Fedora Music documentation
project:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html
http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html
http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/ e.g.
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http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html
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http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html
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http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/hydrogen/
http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/synthtute/part01_overview.ogv
http://orford.org/assets/jack.php
http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/28
IMHO, rather than a one-person authored guide, what might end up better
standing the test of time: setup and cultivate the structure of a
"living" wiki-based site for the purpose of documenting Fedora
audio/video tools&hardware -- in a cohesive, up-to-date, and
fedora-relevant fashion. I recommend the LGPL'd platform XWiki as it's
far more flexible/modern/secure than most "first generation wikis"..
(some web-apps I'm doing using
http://xwiki.org and
http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ on F12:
http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png
http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 ). The latest
version of XWiki has awesome wysiwyg AJAX editor, as well as
openoffice-based document importer -- this will open up authorship to
those that might not have time/patience to contribute through the
existing fedoraproject wiki.
The other thing that would be very helpful ( oh Redhat! :-) ) would be
an accompanying "live-cd" (actually 1-2 DVD(s) or USB thumbdrive) that
any windows user could plug into their box and get a solid,
realtime-enabled 64 bit (hardware permitting) media-editing &&
production workstation out of their existing windows box -- while only
touching a single directory in their existing windows install. It would
be a best-of-breed amalgamation of the CCRMA rt-kernel and tools from
fedora and rpmfusion repositories -- all on one DVD: the goal of the
site would be to document the DVD; the goal of the DVD would be to
provide a working implementation of the site. There needs to be some
concerted "muscle" to implement
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio .... [[ for legality
puporposes, it would need to automatically download/install and
shadow-link files off the net from rpmfusion nonfree distros so that
crucial/showstopper-if-missing media formats (e.g. mp3) are supported
"at the click of a button" (and perhaps dismissal of a legal disclaimer
:-) ). ]]
-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com