>>> Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/28/07 10:44 AM >>> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 05:51 +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote: [...] >> Perhaps you could expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF-Sarai >> FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools? > >Um, they are in there, though somewhat down the list. Personally, I feel >that this will take a longer-term engagement than is provided by the >duration of the usual Sarai FLOSS fellowships. However, we are willing >to consider any serious proposals for multimedia work under the FLOSS >fellowship programme.
I did a mini-project in collecting digital content development tools for e-learning a few years ago - and eventually went the same way that the Sarai team is planning - Final Cut Pro on the Mac and Adobe Premiere/Photoshop/Pagemaker for both the Mac and Windows platforms. It was not because the open-source versions were inferior in capability - or promised features. Just lacked documentation or howtos for the newbie and irregular user. Unfortunately the professional digital designer was normally inseperable from the Mac platform with its proprietary tools and once familiar does not want to change..(Who does! Old dogs...new tricks... aside: I love still love Fedora inspite of the Ubuntu wave!) Many of the tools are available in Dynebolic or Ubuntu Studio. Maybe we should move discussion from "development" to "deployment" of FOSS multimedia: Here is a suggestion: We can run a extended workshop that comprehensively checks out software for digital content creation, and generates HOWTOs and tutorials... 1.Space and hardware - I can provide space - and PC's with relatively good graphics and RAM for a workshop/ especially over the summer/winter/diwali vacations - prelude to FREEDEL 2.People - Students are aplenty for testing/kearning and documentation - but would do far-far better with some guidance... Any takers from those with professional experience in digital design? .....? _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
