Hi Criscabello: Thank you for this report, it is some very cool news. Well, that does it, I'm headed for Brasil... :) Best, dp criscabello . wrote: >hi all!! > >my name is criscabello and i?m from brasil. please excuse my poor english. > >at first, i'd like to thank all of you linux audio developers who made >it possible for us to work with free plataforms. all of us, >brazilians, are very pleased with the result of all your work. > >let me explain. > >i work in a government project called "pontos de cultura" (points of >culture), and it is based in the distribuition of media stations with >free software to some places who are in a state of digital, or social, >exclusion at this time (but not much longer, we hope). this project >has a national scope, and in the beggining of 2005 will be distribute >more than a hundred (100) media kits, with projections of distributing >another thousand (1000) in the next two years! > >last saturday our group had a meeting with our minister of culture, >gilberto gil, to showcase some softwares for media production (like >ardour, audacity, hydrogen, jack, alsa driver, cinerrela, kino, >etc...), and he was totaly convinced about the possibilities of our >free software media production kit. He also understood the power of >collaboration based work and open source development - this article >from wired magazine >(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/linux.html) says more about >the minister. > >oficialy, gil represents our nation, and his opinion represent all >Brazilian's voices! > >at the end of our meeting, we recorded one of his songs using ardour, >gil is a popular singer in brazil (and the world) and this was his >first recording using free software. during the session the only thing >in my mind was: thank you so much paul davis and all the developer >communities! > >you all can listen to the song (and sample and remix it if you like, >it is distributed under a creative commons license) from here: > > in ogg format: http://banto.hipatia.info/maquina-de-ritmo.ogg > in mp3 format: http://www.pirex.com.br/pirexmp3/maquina-de-ritmo.mp3 > >this e-mail is to tell everyone that this is just the beginning, we >have much work to do together (can you imagine the demands from all of >these people working with our free platform?). and i'm so glad for >this momment. > >thank you so much. >criscabello > > >ps. please foward this message for the developments lists. > > > >
