On Wednesday 10 October 2012 18:12:11 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > On Thu, October 11, 2012 7:45 am, drew Roberts wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2012 15:53:30 Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> Having some killer content won't go amiss either. > > > > Can we find somewhere to host ardour projects and some willing musicians > > to > > license their complete projects cc BY-SA or BY? > > > > It may prove a killer way to release songs. One ready to be played with, > > remixed, added to, played along with, and so much more. > > Nils was planning to load up a large set of samples on linuxaudio.org. We > may be able to turn the space into a community hosted sample/project > archive. However it will require many terabytes of disk space if we are > going to do it seriously and that will require us to either generate an > income stream from the users or crowd fund the hardware and hosting costs. > > The consensus is that we should have a seperate server for a project like > this as the disk space requirements are bound to get expensive quickly. > > But there is a business model for providing a service like that. Running > it on Linux is a no brainer. Kim Dotcom has made billions out of it so > there should be some room for Linux Audio peeps too. If people are willing to put a Free license on the projects, it may just take some outreach from linuxaudio to the internet archive folks at archive.org. I can't ever get a response to my emails from them but perhaps someone else has some way to get a dialog going. I am sure it can be done in an ad hoc fashion now but to be really sweet it will probably need some coordination. > > -- > Patrick Shirkey > Boost Hardware Ltd all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
