Hello all,
A little over a year ago, I came to the Fedora project to revive and modernize the Fedora Jam project. I have successfully done that. My vision was that it would be a great way to help develop and test the most recent advancements in Linux audio.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, life has a way of changing for the good or the bad. Back in November, I was offered an opportunity that I could not pass-up: becoming the User Experience Director for the Kubuntu Focus brand of laptops made by MindShareManagement. Since then, I have become an integral member of that team, directly reporting to the CTO, CEO, and President, working directly with the PR and Sales and Marketing directors. It has been a blast, and is a project that works directly with Ubuntu and Debian to create, as we put it, the "Ultimate Linux Laptop". As a MOTU for Ubuntu, this was a perfect fit.
I didn't come here to be a shill for Ubuntu or to advertise my work, but rather, to illustrate the level of involvement. It has taken up a majority of my time, and my work with Ubuntu Studio is directly involved with the project as well as both Ubuntu Studio and the Kubuntu Focus laptop have similar synergies.
Because of the amount of time involved in these projects, something has to give. For that reason, I must step-down as Fedora Jam maintainer. My plan is to continue to maintain certain packages within Fedora (which, admittedly, I've been slacking on), but I am orphaning the vast majority of my packages. Here's the list:
Add64
dssi
dssi-vst
fedora-jam-backgrounds*
fedora-jam-kde-theme*
fluidsynth
fluidsynth-dssi
freqtweak
gnome-guitar
harmony-seq
hexter-dssi
jackctlmmc
jmeters
libinstpatch
lv2-c++-tools
lv2-fabla
lv2-ll-plugins
lv2-mdaEPiano
lv2-newtonator
lv2-sorcer
lv2-swh-plugins
lv2-vocoder-plugins
meterbridge
non-daw
portmidi
radium-compressor
realTimeConfigQuickScan
whysynth-dssi
xsynth-dssi
*These packages have pagure repos which I'd be happy to hand over to whoever takes these.
I do want to thank everyone for the opportunity, including Matthew Miller, Ben Cotton, Neal Gompa, and many others that helped me revive this project. I'm sad to let it go, and I'm not sure what's going to happen to it, but I hope someone who has a passion for the latest technologies in Linux Audio and music production can take it over.
Thanks,
Erich Eickmeyer
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