On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 14:44 -0500, Trever Fischer wrote: > Greetings from FUDCon, in Blacksburg, VA. > > I know that only a handful of people might recognize me on devel@, but > something that's been rolling around in my head for a little while is to > start a Multimedia SIG in fedora. > > I know there exists the audio and music SIGs, but they focus more towards > providing a platform on fedora for users to *create* audio content. > > Something that I feel is missing is a general purpose SIG that aims to > make sure that multimedia use, enjoyment, and consumption on Fedora is > taken care of very handsomely. This includes focusing on topics such as > sorting out all the mess behind MP3 support (i.e. doing more than simply > telling a user with 3k mp3s in a collection "use ogg"), managing photos, > improving support for flash (obviously without explicitly saying "fedora > supports flash"), doing fun stuff with streaming, making sure pulseaudio > always works, etc. +1 to this idea. I know it's difficult to stay in bounds of 100% "legality, freedom and openness", but there are many things that could be done (without crossing these bounds) to make dealing with media issues easier for users. -- Vratislav Podzimek Anaconda Rider | Red Hat, Inc. | Brno - Czech Republic -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
