Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Showing off LAD at the Linuxtag 2001?
From: Matthias Pfisterer (Matthias.Pfisterer_AT_gmx.de)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 21:24:24 EET
Hi,
I can offer two things:
- a demonstration of saint, a MPEG-4 Structured Audio decoder
- accomodation for 5 - 6 people in my flat in Stuttgart, 10 minutes from
the location of the LinuxTag (by car, quarter of an hour by subway)
Matthias
Frank Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have been mentioning this a few months ago, and I'm making some additions
> and plans here because things are slowly approaching -
>
> as some of you might now, the german "LinuxTag" is a rather famous Linux
> exhibition (this year for the 8th time, IIRC) which started out as a university
> project in Kaiserslautern and has by now grown so much that it doesn't take
> place in a university anymore, but instead in the "Messezentrum Stuttgart",
> >from July 5th to 8th this year (it has been there last year as well).
>
> The organizers have always since the start of the LinuxTag put a lot of
> work into making it a nice merger of commercial and free stuff - that's
> also what their slogan "where .com meets .org" says. They are offering
> booth space both for companies (which have to pay $$) as well as a
> considerable amount of free booth space for free software projects, like
> Debian, KDE, PHP, PovRay, FreeBSD etc (I think last year Arts was there
> as well..?)
>
> In October of last year I had the idea that it might be a great chance for
> the LAD people to be able to show off their abilities and software at the next
> LinuxTag, and this idea is still in my head. I happen to know the organizer
> of the free software booths personally, and I think we might be able to get
> a booth there.
>
> What could we do? Well, my idea is to have some software+hardware there to
> show that it's possible (and maybe even much better than under MS-OS) to do
> music or sound projects under Linux. This would include such things as:
>
> - MIDI sequencing
> - Harddisk recording
> - CD mastering
> - Music typesetting
> - and whatever else you can think of.
>
> _If_ we get enough people together to man the booth for 4 days, I would
> start getting in contact with Martin Schulze (the organizer) soon as they
> have already begun collecting calls for papers now, which means the booth
> allocation ralley is about to begin.
>
> What would be REALLY nice to have is if some of the - I'd say - more important
> people from this list, like e.g. Paul Barton-Davis or Dave Philips could be
> at the LinuxTag. Of course this would require some kind of sponsoring from
> a company, but that shouldn't be impossible to do - last year a german
> company, ID-Pro, sponsored the free Debian CDs we had given out there (that
> was a couple thousand of Deutschmarks).
>
> Ok, so my current questions are mostly these:
> - Are there enough people interested in such a LAD booth so we could populate
> it for 4 days?
> - Will the software we want to show be at a usable state at that time (I know
> this question is almost impossible to answer :-)
> - Will there be sponsors who could pay for some "prominent" people who have
> to travel a bit?
> - What software should actually be demonstrated (think in terms of "ohh-ahhh"
> effects :-)
> - Is anyone interested in holding a 60-minute talk on some audio-centric
> theme? Language could be german or english.
>
> If all of this works out fine, I think this would be a great opportunity to
> raise a lot of interest in MIDI&Sound under Linux. Last year I was at the
> Debian booth, and the atmosphere as well as the personal contacts we had
> were really great.
>
> Should we succeed in putting this together, I'll already offer at this time
> that I will bring a (still to be purchased) reasonable fast/new PC with
> large monitor, lots of HD space, my trusty Roland D-50 synthesizer, an
> Akai sampler and maybe some more MIDI/sound hardware with me. Fortunately
> I live only 70km from Stuttgart, so that's a rather short travel for me.
>
> Oh, and before I forget: As usual there is no entrance fee to the LinuxTag.
> It has, and hopefully will always be, a free show. http://www.linuxtag.de/
>
> Waiting for feedback,
> Frank
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