Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] LAD home page
From: Richard W.E. Furse (richard_AT_muse.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 23:55:55 EEST
Ludicrously busy at present, but:
1. Webring: yep, potentially a great idea if done responsibly. I trust Dave
P more than anyone else atm to do this. Should I put something on
www.ladspa.org?
2. LADSPA is only as good as the consensus behind it - individual names are
not terribly important. The website is almost up to date, but I do have a
list of [small] fixes to the SDK for when I have a spare evening. No-one
has come up with a problem with the standard itself for a very long time.
Oh, and I've not stopped thinking about standardising the GUI layer. [Have
you? {Hmm, lets leave alone - potential rant.}]
3. Freshmeat has never been hit by LADSPA simply because I've been too busy
with other things to do the publicity required. If people think they have
the time/effort free to make this happen I'll tidy up the LADSPA site to
make things 'right' first (but please a few days warning!).
BTW www.ladspa.org is a 'commercial grade' website, so please let me know
if you have relevant stuff to put on it. Also, if you think Jezar has
short-changed us in the Freeverb states, please let me know and I'll go see
him and beat him up ;-)
--Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Jorn Nettingsmeier [SMTP:nettings_AT_folkwang.uni-essen.de]
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:27 PM
To: Kai Vehmanen
Cc: linux-audio-dev_AT_ginette.musique.umontreal.ca; Dave Phillips; John
Littler; Richard W.E. Furse; Paul Winkler
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAD home page
[cc:ed to dave, paul, richard and john]
hello everyone !
Kai Vehmanen wrote:
>
> Just wanted to say a big thank you for Jorn and Paul for the work they
> have done with LAD home pages at http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ !
<blush>
> I spent a few hours today answering various ecasound related mails, and I
> noticed that I referred to the LAD pages in nearly every message I wrote!
:)
> Seriously, things like "what's latency?", "disk i/o performance",
> "current audioserver/audio-driver situation" are very common
> questions.
>
> It might be a good idea to connect the various audio sites more closely
to
> each other. LAD home page, Dave's pages, l-m-station, www.ladspa.org,
> ALSA, etc ... so when you find one of them, you should find them all.
Just
> like with Slashdot, Freshmeat and other OSDN sites.
a nice linux audio webring comes to mind. (graphics anyone ?)
(did i see such a thing on dave's site ?)
the pages need a little rework anyway (getting a little too long to
be easily viewed) and maarten has come up with some nice lad logos
and buttons, so we could handle it all in one effort.
i'm involved in a theater project for the next 2 1/2 weeks, so i
will probably not do it before end of september.
in the mean time, i will try to contact the owners of the other
sites you mentioned.
dave, john, richard, paul: your thoughts on the topic ?
[the only problem i see is to find a button or webring image that is
both clearly visible and doesn't destroy the quite different looks
of the sites.
where would you put such a button ? i'd slap it right on the front
page, but some folks may have aestethic objections :)]
if you folks comment in favor of the webring, i'm planning to get
the alsa folks and other audio site hosts on board as well.
regards,
jorn
btw: in presenting projects spawned from LAD discussions, i'm always
tempted to mention them in a "our community effort" kind of way,
especially with LADSPA and the new EVO project.
the reason is that i feel it might pull more people to LAD and to
these projects, and that it might give more "authority" (in a
positive way) to the proposed LADSPA standard.
however, if someone feels this is taking credit away from
individuals, let me know.
the "software from lad contributors", now centered around single
persons, will need rework to reflect this (take evo: it's mentioned
under benno's projects, because he came up with code first, even
though it is now clearly a group effort).
> --
> . http://www.eca.cx ... [ audio software for linux ] /\ .
> . http://www.eca.cx/aivastus ... [ aivastus net radio ] /\ .
> . http://www.eca.cx/sculpscape [ my armchair-tunes mp3/ra/wav ]
-- Jorn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfurstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://www.folkwang.uni-essen.de/~nettings/
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