Re: [linux-audio-dev] promoting LAC 2007

From: Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 27 2007 - 15:10:22 EEST

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 07:46 -0500, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Malte Steiner wrote:
>
> > so far I cant find reports on LAC 2007 on Blogs or newspages, neither
> > on Linux related nor electronic music ones.
>
> Nope, they're generally not interested. The last time I notified
> Slashdot about the conference they put it in their Linux section and it
> got little response (except from the typical /. crowd of naysayers.
> There was no mention of it at all this year.

I agree that not many people that aren't directly involved with Linux
audio software care about it, but the Slashdot crowd is hardly
representative for most Linux and free software users. I hope.

> LJ didn't think it worthy enough to fund a reporter's trip. AFAIK there
> were no official reps from any major music or music tech magazines. The
> commercial music software market is small, small enough for the
> manufacturers to possibly perceive Linux audio software as a most
> unwelcome alternative.

Wasn't this years LAC sponsored by Ableton though?

--ll

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