Some thoughts below about why I suggested Christopher continue this and ask for mentors from the Fedora Audio SIG. If anyone from the Docs Team is interested in mentoring, I think a dual-mentoring situation might work here. This is because writing a guide for Fedora involves two parts -- the working with the technical side on the content, and working with the documentation side on production and publishing. Docs folks -- read on to understand more and where to go next if you are interested in mentoring. On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:09:08PM -0400, Christopher Antila wrote: > Hello: > > I am a Canadian university student who would like to take part in the > Fedora Summer Coding process. My academic background is in Music, but I > have taken some courses in Compuer Science. My idea is to write a guide > for musicians using Fedora (see the idea page here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Fedora_Musicians'_Guide). > > The idea, basically, is to get people started with the various programs > available in Fedora and Planet CCRMA. The idea page is far from a > complete project, so any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. What > I need now is a mentor to guide me through the project! Ideally, that > task would be split between people from the Docs SIG, and the music > community. I've been on the fedora-music-list and music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx since the list was started, so I am somewhat familiar with the challenges around PlanetCCRMA and Fedora. I am *very pleased* and equally impressed with the hard work the CCRMA team puts in to making things work with Fedora. Having a Fedora Musicians' Guide that focuses on getting Fedora and PlanetCCRMA working together as a digital audio workstation might be a good way to bring more audiophiles, audio professionals, prosumers, and amateurs (like me!) to using this great combination. Christopher needs a mentor who can work with him in getting the guide written. I suggested he ask from the music-list/Audio SIG because you all are the people who know the subject best. Also, a certain portion of his work will happen on this list. That's what Fedora Summer Coding does, brings students to work on real open source projects, similar to Google Summer of Code. We've long talked about doing content as well as code. That opens the doors to books as well as video, music, and other expressions that support the Fedora Project. We can't be sure that Christopher's project will get funded this year, but with a mentor it can proceed anyway. If you'd like to know more, start here and/or email me for more information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_mentor The idea page is up already, so this is where Christopher's proposal starts from: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Fedora_Musicians'_Guide - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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