[PlanetCCRMA] [Fedora-music-list] Summer Coding Idea for a Musicians' Guide to Fedora

[Christopher Antila]

Hello Niels (and everybody):

The format of the guide is not yet finalized.  A wiki has its 
advantages, but a "published" guide gives a large dose of credibility, 
among other things.

As for a dedicated spin, I agree that this would be a great thing to 
have.  It is well beyond my abilities, and would probably require the 
collaboration of many students and non-students.  Depending on how 
things progress, it might be worth further investigation next year.

Thank you for the links to existing guides.  I have found a few of them 
already, but it is obviously important to read widely before authoring 
yet another guide.

I would like to invite the music and PlanetCCRMA communities to comment 
on my (draft!) proposal, which I just posted.  Any input received at 
this point, in particular with the guide's final format, will be taken 
very seriously.  See:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_-_Fedora_Musicians%27_Guide


Thank you,
Christopher.



On 05/09/2010 06:47 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
> Here's a few existing guides for your Fedora Music documentation project:
>
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html
> http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html
> http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html
> http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/ e.g.
> ** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html
> ** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html
> ** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/hydrogen/
> http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/synthtute/part01_overview.ogv
> http://orford.org/assets/jack.php
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/28
>
>
> IMHO, rather than a one-person authored guide, what might end up better
> standing the test of time: setup and cultivate the structure of a
> "living" wiki-based site for the purpose of documenting Fedora
> audio/video tools&hardware -- in a cohesive, up-to-date, and
> fedora-relevant fashion. I recommend the LGPL'd platform XWiki as it's
> far more flexible/modern/secure than most "first generation wikis"..
> (some web-apps I'm doing using http://xwiki.org and
> http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ on F12:
> http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png
> http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png
> http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 ). The latest
> version of XWiki has awesome wysiwyg AJAX editor, as well as
> openoffice-based document importer -- this will open up authorship to
> those that might not have time/patience to contribute through the
> existing fedoraproject wiki.
>
> The other thing that would be very helpful ( oh Redhat! :-) ) would be
> an accompanying "live-cd" (actually 1-2 DVD(s) or USB thumbdrive) that
> any windows user could plug into their box and get a solid,
> realtime-enabled 64 bit (hardware permitting) media-editing &&
> production workstation out of their existing windows box -- while only
> touching a single directory in their existing windows install. It would
> be a best-of-breed amalgamation of the CCRMA rt-kernel and tools from
> fedora and rpmfusion repositories -- all on one DVD: the goal of the
> site would be to document the DVD; the goal of the DVD would be to
> provide a working implementation of the site. There needs to be some
> concerted "muscle" to implement
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio .... [[ for legality
> puporposes, it would need to automatically download/install and
> shadow-link files off the net from rpmfusion nonfree distros so that
> crucial/showstopper-if-missing media formats (e.g. mp3) are supported
> "at the click of a button" (and perhaps dismissal of a legal disclaimer
> :-) ). ]]
>
> -- Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
>