On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > "Welcome to Impro-Visor (Improvisation Advisor) Version 4, from Bob > Keller at Harvey Mudd College. > > [snip] > > Bob Keller, Impro-Visor Project Director" (README.txt) > > I don't like it, but it's not important if I or anybody else does or > doesn't like it. The students are mature and if they are fine with it, > it's their choice. And the good thing, there's no confusing list of > students participating ;). >
Ralf, What's there not to like, that a project can have a director? Have you actually run the app? If you do so, click the Help>About menu. There you will find all contributors are listed, as they were from the day when I first released it. I also promote them and attribute their roles on the project home page. They are also co- authors on various papers that are linked. You might find this hard to believe, but without my efforts, this tool would not exist. It was purely my conception and it was I who took the first version from a non-working prototype at the end of the first summer to something that I'd be willing to post in any form. It took an additional 4 months of full-time work to get it to the first release. And that sort of thing has continued, as summer student workers leave incomplete additions to the software. It has been a big drain on time, and without someone to move it forward, it would not be available in its current form. The students leave and usually cease their contributions after the money runs out. I am not asking you or anyone else here for kind words, and I realize that you could not know about all the work that has gone into this, but perhaps asking me directly before making assumptions and casting aspersions on the project would be a courteous way to proceed. Bob Robert M. Keller, Csilla & Walt Foley Professor of Computer Science Harvey Mudd College Claremont, California 91711 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
