(I'm moving this to linux-audio-user where the rest of this discussion has been held. Please direct replies there) On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > At the risk of being pedantic, what is wrong with the sound/audio section of > freshmeat? A good question. At first glance not much. But I do have the following gripes, and maybe some more I haven't thought of yet ;-) * Somewhat lacking in categories for audio/music apps. As far as I can tell, submitters cannot influence what categories their app should go in. * You have to be logged in to submit anything. In a smaller community, I think we can relax this requirement, especially since admins will be able to undo any malicious changes. * No source code available to the freshmeat software. (see the FAQ.) I plan to make all my stuff open source. * Freshmeat will probably never do cool stuff like automatically track releases in the audio-specific distros. * Freshmeat rejects "trivial" submissions. I can understand the reasoning, but I don't agree with this. http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/198/ * Freshmeat is too large and too general. It doesn't give me warm fuzzy LAD/LAU community feelings. * Banner ads. Fooey. And finally... * They don't have a logo with a cute penguin wearing headphones. This is unforgivable. All that said, since they export their backend RDF files, we should be able to re-use a whole lot of stuff from freshmeat, and/or use their xml-rpc api to forward our own submissions to freshmeat. Not sure about the best way to do all this, but I'm sure Steve will help ;-) > Dave's site is great because it is so low tech imho. Low tech is great unless you're the guy that does all the work :-) > I think for advocacy purposes and general coolness, it would be nice > to have a > site devoted to linux _musicians_ where we can upload and compare tracks and > production methods. More of an extension of LAU... Sure, the more the merrier. But I don't want to lose focus. You can build that site if you want :-) There has been talk on the consortium_p list of having linuxaudio.org be a sort of portal for various subdomains which can be maintained independently. So my proposal could live at something like apps.linuxaudio.org or similar. A musician portal could either be based on linuxmusician.com (yes, it exists, check it out!) or something similar at e.g. musician.linuxaudio.org. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's STRATA-MINIATURE THE END OF THE WORLD! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
