[Fedora-music-list] [PlanetCCRMA] Music Spin

[Christopher R. Antila]

Hi:

The Fedora Musicians' Guide is an official document being prepared by the
Documentation Project.  This carries much more weight than a wiki.

That said, increased participation would be great, and the Musicians' Guide
is already on the Fedora wiki in my User: pages.  These could easily be
transferred into the real wiki, and maintained in sync or independently of
the official documentation, but I don't know if that sort of duplication is
a good idea.  What we certainly could do is write complementary chapters
with programs that aren't (yet) in the official guide.  Besides, as an
open-source project, the official guide itself is already like a wiki in
that people with free time can contribute with what they know best.

As for the current state of the Guide, the (terrible) first draft has been
finished for a week, and is available on the wiki.  It's now been converted
to DocBook (the format used by the Fedora Docs website), and is stored in a
git repository on a fedorahosted.org account.  The plan is to post a draft
to the Fedora Docs website this Tuesday, incorporating many improvements.
I'll post a notice to this list when the draft is ready - the more people
who can read it and find errors, the better!

The wiki version of the Musicians' Guide, from this point, is not the most
recent version.  Notices will be posted soon to indicate this.


Christopher.

On 30 July 2010 18:11, Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not make the Fedora Musician's Guide a wiki like project that
> people with some free time could contribute with they know best? There
> is already the FLOSS manual for Ardour and PureData that has already
> done some work in this direction. And it is nice because you can make
> a snapshot of the wiki and print a PDF from the website.
>
> 2010/7/30 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>:
> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19:32AM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>
> >> Same here as in the Fedora side, not enough manpower (and not enough
> >> demand, it is easy to install Fedora and then add a repo for any
> >> additional packages).
> >
> > I tend to agree, just wanted to reiterate my offer from another place
> > in this thread.  If there were enough interest to do 'Planet CCRMA
> > Audio Workstation, a Fedora Remix'[1], I and people like me would burn
> > and carry around copies.  Especially if it were able to run as a live
> > Linux from a CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive, I would give copies to all
> > my musician and audio friends to boot to and try out.
> >
> > It's the difference between, "Already-committed so I am going to install
> > and enable a repo," and "I don't know that Linux can work for me as a
> > musician/producer/podcaster/etc."  I talk with far more of the latter
> > at FOSS events, etc.
> >
> > I can't guarantee numbers, but I'm sure if you had an audio remix
> > available that people knew about, the Fedora Ambassadors around the
> > globe would start handing them out for the same reasons I said above.
> >
> > - Karsten
> >
> > [1] Don't turn to me for naming, clearly. :)
> > --
> > name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
> > team:                Red Hat Community Architecture
> > uri:               http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki
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> >
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