<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Here's a few existing guides for your Fedora Music documentation project:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html" target="_blank">http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html</a></div>
<div><div><a href="http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html" target="_blank">http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html</a></div><div><a href="http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html" target="_blank">http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html</a></div>
</div><div><a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/" target="_blank">http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/</a> e.g.</div><div><div>** <a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html" target="_blank">http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html</a></div>
</div><div>** <a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html" target="_blank">http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html</a></div><div>** <a href="http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/hydrogen/" target="_blank">http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/hydrogen/</a></div>
<div><a href="http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/synthtute/part01_overview.ogv" target="_blank">http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/synthtute/part01_overview.ogv</a></div><div><a href="http://orford.org/assets/jack.php" target="_blank">http://orford.org/assets/jack.php</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/28" target="_blank">http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/28</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://xwiki.org" target="_blank">http://xwiki.org</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/</a> on F12: <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png" target="_blank">http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png</a> <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png" target="_blank">http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png</a> <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3" target="_blank">http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3</a> ). 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio</a> .... [[ 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 :-) ). ]]</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- Niels</div><div><a href="http://nielsmayer.com" target="_blank">http://nielsmayer.com</a></div><div><br></div>