Re: [LAD] LAD Activity (WAS: [ANN] IR: LV2 Convolution Reverb)

Excerpts from Alexandre Prokoudine's message of 2011-02-23 14:01:10 +0100:
> On 2/23/11, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>
> > I do live behind the moon when it comes to web technology, but isn't rss
> > meant for notifications? Maybe simpler, email?
>
> Nope. I'll elaborate below.
>
> > If it needs a social networking thing for some reason, maybe diaspora
> > will do the trick? With diaspora chances are better that someone will
> > write a good user interface of some sort.
>
> Yes, diaspora is much closer to what's required.

But the question is whether the whole writing stuff is necessary and
adds something. Social networks are general purpose, not special
purpose. Writing stuff there is additional effort.

> > Right now github and the likes seems to be used as a social network
> > thing among developers, but I don't think it's a good idea to rely on
> > such a service for communication.
>
> Yes, a good idea IMO would be a service on top of existing service
> like github, twitter etc. They all expose API after all, no?

Each of those will be used by some people at most, so do you want to tie
them all together? Basing everything on a single service such as github
will force people to choose between exclusion or adoption of said
service, a really bad idea. The benefit of github and similar is that
commits and other stuff that happens can be monitored so the dev doesn't
need to expend additional effort to let people know what he's doing.

> Now, here is why rss, email et al don't do a good work enough: they
> don't provide perspective and they don't expose connections between
> people right away.

There could be a catch-all mailinglist. For rss and the likes, there
are aggregators like planet (which is in use already, for example:
http://planet.linuxaudio.org/ [but includes stuff like Traktor...])

> I've served several years as social hub for free
> graphics software developers and I can tell you that while email and
> Jabber and IRC and whatnot, as well as F2F meetings at LGM, LAC etc
> are the ultimate communication means, it's very important to stay
> tuned to all things happening. For same reason I woudn't limit such a
> dream service to audio developers, because audio is related to video
> (audio effects in NLE, JACK compatibility), and video is related to
> things like static graphics and video drivers (likewise audio is
> related to kernel, ALSA and FFADO), and so it all is intertwined.
>
> AFAIK, Linux.com was supposed to become a kind of social service.
> Maybe it's worth investigating what their plans are.
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org

I do agree that it should be open for related fields, but there should
be some barriers IMHO, simply because I don't think closed source
non-linux development would add anything (just an example, because of
that Traktor review. I'd be pissed to see stuff like this).

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Received on Wed Feb 23 20:15:02 2011