A couple of questions

[John Mulholland <johnmulholland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there,

Some of you may know me, I have posted in the past but have not had much 
time to devote to FOSS music lately. I hope to find more time soon - 
catching up on all the LAU mails is going to take quite a while. I have 
a couple of questions. I guess the easiest way to reply would be to 
alter the subject heading to reflect the question number. Then threads 
can be kept seperate, and on topic.

1. Is there anywhere non programmers can suggest an application to be 
developed? I am sure there are many non programmers with great ideas 
lurking on this list.

2. Sometime ago I registered opensourcemusic.info. It is very out of 
date, and a bit shabby really. I was hoping to turn it into a simple 
listings site for newbies. Perhaps have LAA mails autoposted. Anyone 
have any ideas what to do with it?

3. I have been chatting with Gianluca who runs openjay about the idea of 
putting together a little award or prize for the LAU community. Perhaps 
for the years best project or individual. It wouldnt be too difficult to 
set up a poll which people can suggest a project/person and vote on it. 
I am unemployed at the moment, but happy to contribute some funds. I am 
sure many others would be. It is another oppurtunity to give something 
back. What do you think?

4. This may be a little off topic. In fact it is, but I hope it is of 
interest to people here. Apologies if not. Recently the Guardian 
newspaper in the UK has started a campaign to make govt collected 
information freely available. However, there approach is only free as in 
beer, not also free as in speech. I have been blogging about this for a 
while now and would appreciate some comments and support. You can read 
about it all here http://www.midfieldmaestro.com/?p=121 .

Thanks for you time reading this, the wonderful software and the amazing 
music posted. It makes catching up mails a pleasure :)

Regards,
John