On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 13:52 +0530, Andrew Michael Lynn wrote: [...] > 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.
Yeah, that is where we seem to be heading to at this time. However, I would like for a real FOSS alternative to be available. > 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!) Actually, I completely sympathise with such people. Once you have learnt a tool, and become familiar enough with it that it has become second nature, an alternative will have to be significantly better in order to convince people to switch. And, from what I hear from people, the FOSS tools are as yet not even up to the mark of existing closed-source equivalents. If Final Cut Pro is the industry standard for now, maybe we should do the standard FOSS trick of cloning its interface. > 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... OK, this sounds like a plan. Though, rather than a single workshop, I would think that this would take a continued engagement for several months. Someone at Sarai was supposed to have been doing exactly this, but there has not been much progress. At the same time, I would like to put together a team of developers to tackle specific programming tasks in the domain of multimedia FOSS applications. We should talk about how to make these two things happen. > Any takers from those with professional experience in digital design? > .....? I do believe that Niyam has "been volunteered" :-) People at Sarai would probably be willing to pitch in if they saw a concerted effort, with a real chance of success. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ 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]/
