Matthias Nagorni wrote: > Hello, > > as both the participants of the 1st LAD conference and people at ZKM > enjoyed the meeting, Frank and I asked for the possibility to hold a > second meeting at ZKM next year. > The answer was positive and therefore we can announce that the 2nd LAD > conference is planned to take place April 29th - May 2nd 2004 at ZKM Karlsruhe. > There will be more time (we now have 4 instead of 3 days) and > the option to have more room. In addition to the rooms we had for the last > conference, we now have the option to also use a hall which is about double > the size of the lecture hall we used for the last meeting. This hall is even > more attractive since it is the recording studio of ZKM and can also serve as > a concert hall. This time there is also the option to invite artists who > actually do music with Linux software. this sounds really really great. thanks matthias and frank for organising it, and kudos to zkm for their hospitality! > Early registrations (email either me or Frank Neumann <Frank.Neumann_AT_st.com>) > would help us to estimate the approximate scale of the event which can be > even larger than last time. sign me up! > If you can do a talk or presentation please let > us know the subject and estimated time you need for this. Depending on the > number of talks we can decide whether we will have two parallel sessions. will we have public presentations for a non-expert audience, too ? if so, i might do some "introductory audio engineering for beginners", and perhaps someone else with basic dsp knowledge would want to collaborate and tackle the dsp side of things...? otherwise i'll just sit quietly and open-mouthed in a corner again, listen to the guys and have yet another time of my life :) > If the program of the event is fixed earlier than last time, this will > help to advertise it in journals and among relevant companies. It might > also help to find possible sponsors. good idea. perhaps we can come up with some kind of poster that we can distribute to people and institutions that might be interested (martin "joey" schulze does it this way for the linuxtag, and since people put them only where geeks hang around, it is probably quite effective.) this time we should try to organize video webcasts in addition to the audio streams, and of course an IRC feedback channel. after the fun we had last time, i'm volunteering again :) regards, jörn -- All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. -- Charter of the United Nations, Article 2.4 Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ (Linux Audio Developers)
