Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux audio hardware market research [was: creating a wiki "soundcard experiences" site]
From: Marek Peteraj (marpet_AT_naex.sk)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 14:52:50 EET
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 22:14, John Check wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 07:43 am, Marek Peteraj wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 11:06, MarC wrote:
> > > what about creating a wiki website to submit "soundcard experiences"?
> >
> > This also seems like a good idea to me, and it would be cool to have a
> > knowledgebase like that.
> >
> > However i think that doing a survey in order to measure how big the
> > linux audio market is is a different project.
> > Similar to what David did, i imagine that a RME (or M-Audio) customer
> > would submit his name, optionally email, choose type of his card from a
> > list, and enter approx. date of purchase so that we can track the growth
> > of the market(thus it's possible to roughly estimate its future growth).
> > Also we'd need to announce it to a broad range of people, LAD/LAU/LAA,
> > ALSA-dev/user/site, and Slashdot i suppose, so that we reach as many
> > such customers as possible.
> > Let's also not forget about OSS users which are also linux users.
> > (I personally reckon a few people from #lad having troubles with alsa,
> > they switched to oss for that reason).
> > However, since i've got no php experience and very little mysql
> > experience, i can't tell how hard it would be to do such a sumbit/log
> > system.
> >
>
> Now that you mention it... I made some posts regarding a MIDI implementation
> chart reporting system over the summer. I'm getting in the home stretch with
> that, mainly gotta do something WRT of authentication before it's ready to
> roll out. Wouldn't be a big deal to add another area for that of which you
> speak
That'd be great. It wouldn't need to be something really simple so that
people don't have to bother with it too much. Most relevant information
such as type of card, approx. date of purchase, so that we can count the
numbers and estimate future growth.
Marek
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