On Sunday 24 February 2002 19.40, Kai Vehmanen wrote: [...] > There are still many major developer groups dealing with multimedia > that are not actively participating on these lists. The biggest > ones are groups working on desktop environment media subsystems and > game developers (OpenAL, SDL, etc). The reason for lack of > communication is usually lack of time. These bigger developer > groups already have their own mailing lists and irc channels so > they don't have much time (or need) for LAD/LAU. And this is > perfectly understandable. Although I still hope we could maintain a > line of communication.
I'm on the SDL list as well, and I've been using SDL a great deal lately - and as you can see, I'm back here again. (Muhahahaaa!!! ;-) When I get the chance, I try to pass knowledge and experience gained here on to SDL hackers doing similar stuff. BTW, I'm back to hacking audio stuff again - although not really for the studio. (But it's turning out a lot better than I expected, so who knows...) > > 1. start a sourceforge foundry > > name suggestions : "unix media" (other names are welcome) > > 2. start a sourceforge project along with the foundry, which is > > aplain website project this way we all could easily contribute to > > build an informative website for audio-development, collecting > > links etc. > > My view is that building yet another community project would just > harm LAD and LAU by further dividing the free-software and > open-source developers. > > A better approach is to help build and maintain LAD/LAU related web > sites and resources. Here's a few overview/news web sites: > > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ > http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ > http://mstation.org > http://www.linuxmusic.fr.st I'm not sure... but unless a community is too crowded to function, why risk weakening it by (unintentionally) splitting it up? There are too many *lists* for people to be on all the interesting ones - but checking the news sections of a few sites is doable. //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `----------------------> http://www.linuxaudiodev.com/maia -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
