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_Musicians%27_Guide 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. > ** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html > ** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html > ** 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 > _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
