Frank Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> LinuxTag is coming closer, and now I finally have enough info to write a
> mail about it. Everyone somehow involved in the LAD booth at the
> LinuxTag should probably read this; the others may press "d" or whatever
> now.
>
> 1) Participant list
> I have the following people on my list of participants, be it for just
> one day or for the entire fair. I'd like those in this list to give me a
> short "ack" or "nak", that is, if they are actually going to come or
> not. Also, I need to know how long you are going to be present at the
> fair so we can organize a bit who can take a break at what time etc (I
> think this will not be a big problem, though).
>
> Frank Neumann ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Matthias Weiss ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Steve Harris ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> J�rn Nettingsmeier ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Tobias Ulbricht ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Francois Dechelle ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> (Nicola Bernadini: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> (Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Robert Schrem ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> J�rgen Erhard ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Josh Green ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Werner Schweer ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Alexander Ehlert ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Daniel Kobras ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Richard Guenther ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
>
> I believe it would be better if you sent your mail directly to me
> instead of to this list. Before replying now, though, read the rest of
> this mail as there is more info I need to know from you.
>
> 2) Travelling to Stuttgart
> This is something I can help with only partially; in the next days I'll
> scan in a city map of Stuttgart and mark the way to the "Messezentrum"
> and where the university is located (it's about 10 km away, so the only
> way to get there is probably car or bus). Actually, there is also a
> description of how to get to the fair at the Linuxtag's homepage under
> http://www.linuxtag.org .
>
> - If you're coming from Germany, things should be clear
> - If you're coming from another country, arriving by train or plane, we
> need to arrange something. Robert Schrem had offered he might help to
> get people from the train station or elsewhere, and if this were really
> needed, then I'd very much like to make use of your offer, Robert, as
> I'm not from Stuttgart and might be busy with other preparations on
> Wednesday (day before the fair begins).
>
> So, be sure to let us know NOW how you get to the LinuxTag and if you
> need someone to pick you up from train station or airport. As for
> myself, I'll be there by Wednesday, July 4th, somewhere in the afternoon
> (3 p.m. or so).
>
> Unfortunately, there will be no sponsoring for us, so you will have to
> pay for the travel on your own :-(. Sorry about this, but I'll also have
> to take 3 days vacation because our company is in a cost-cutting year
> and they can't afford to send employees to congresses/fairs :-(.
>
> 3) Sleeping / accomodation
> Robert Schrem had offered sleeping places at his flat, but this is not
> possible anymore. But that is no problem - the organizer of the free
> booths at the LinuxTag have made an agreement with the university to let
> people sleep there in the gym hall, and this includes access to showers,
> plus breakfast and dinner (simple, but what do you expect? :-). For more
> details, please go to www.infodrom.ffis.de/Debian/events/LinuxTag2001/
> and read the "Infomail #xx" links on the left side). As for dinner, at
> least at one of the 4 days there'll be a "social event" right at the
> fair with food&beverages where we'll probably be allowed to join for a
> special price. As for the other days, we might (instead of having dinner
> at the university) decide to go somewhere downtown to a local
> restaurant.
>
> So, here I need to know from all participants how many nights they want
> to sleep at the gym hall, how many breakfasts they'd like to have etc.
> You might want to use the form that is in "Infomail #3" at the above
> link, but please send the filled out snippet to me directly because I
> want to collect all of this information on behalf of our group.
>
> I understand not everyone might feel comfortable when thinking of
> sleeping on air matress/sleeping bag in a gym hall, but it's really the
> best I can offer - if you want to go to a hotel or youth hostel, you're
> on your own. But, believe me - it's actually a rather funny time I had
> earlier when we had Amiga computer meetings and some >100 geeks were
> snorting in a large room - just don't forget your ear plugs! :-).
>
> 4) Available hardware
> I'm building up a list here..more info perhaps in the next mail.
>
> 5) Insurance of hardware
> As we are going to have quite a bit of valuable hardware at the booth, I
> need some kind of insurance against theft, damage etc. No more info
> available on this yet, but I have someone who is looking into this for
> me.
>
> 6) The booth
> Still no info on the actual dimensions of the booth - Martin Schulze
> says "there is enough space", and I have reserved space for two "demo
> stations" (table with place for PC keyboard, monitor, keyboard, active
> speakers, rack etc) plus some possible extra space for notebooks and the
> like, but I still don't know the geometry. I hope this will be cleared
> up soon.
>
> We will want some banners which tell what our booth is all about. Right
> now my best idea is to have our logo and possible some more text printed
> across a large (1x5 sheets if A4 paper) printout which gets fixed over
> the booth. I know how to do this and we have a color printer at the
> company I can peruse for this, so that's at least a first "for-sure"
> choice. If someone else has got better ideas/choices, please speak up.
>
> It would be good if we could prepare some kind of leaflets we can hand
> out to interested people; such a leaflet should contain information like
> - Purpose of the group
> - names of projects with URLs
> Typesetting this and having it printed/folded is not too difficult, but
> we need the actual content, and it will cost something; maybe I can
> arrange some kind of sponsoring with the Debian folks or someone else
> who got some money to give away..
>
> 6) Projects, or: who shows off what?
> This is the item we should probably have started discussing weeks ago;
> sorry for being late. What follows is a short list of applications that
> came to my mind, and I'd like to see you participants to step forward
> and tell me what applications you think you want to demonstrate there.
> This would mean you have written the particular piece of software or
> used it for while, know how to handle it and can prepare some demo
> material for it. A few days before the fair begins, you should then send
> me the requirements/data files you have so I can prepare/install
> whatever software you need on the demo machines (one will be mine, the
> second might come from J�rn or Robert Schrem).
>
> My current list of projects:
> LADSPA and Plugins
> http://www.ladspa.org
>
> Octal (Tracker; Synthesizer - ready for showing?)
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octal
> http://dto.qwsi.net
>
> Ardour (Harddisk recorder)
> http://ardour.sourceforge.net
> (need a sort-of stable version and compile instructions :-\)
>
> Muse (QT-based MIDI sequencer)
> http://muse.seh.de
>
> sweep, gnoise, xwave - sample editing
> {sweep,gnoise}.sourceforge.net
>
> ecasound/ecawave
> http://ecasound.cx
>
> terminatorX
> http://terminatorX.cx
>
> smurf
> http://smurf.sourceforge.net
>
> soundtracker (+buzz-Plugins?)
> http://www.soundtracker.org
>
> Glame
> http://glame.sourceforge.net
>
> denemo + Lilypond
> denemo.sourceforge.net
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/
>
> cdrecord + XCDRoast
> (...)
>
>
>http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> http://www.xcdroast.org/
>
> Solfege? (ear training - learn to hear chords etc)
> sidplay? (good ol' tunes :-)
> xmms?
> gdam?
>
> snd?
>
> LowLatency-Graphs
> (just have some printouts of graphs and stick them to the booth
> somewhere?)
>
> General large "demo units":
> - Working with samples (gnoise, sweep, xwave *sic* etc).
>
> - Producing music - from idea to the song on a CD. Need to refine this a
> little, but it's basically something like:
> idea -> sequencing (MusE) -> recording (Ardour) -> burning (cdrtools)
>
> - Interactive toys and "eye candy": real-time FFT of audio (xanalyser),
> xmms with nice eye-catching plugins (Goom, Waterfall, Jakdaw etc..)
>
> - Voice experiments: Something like vocoders, pitchshifting? Microphone
> is there, software needs to be prepared for this. I think of demos of
> e.g. Freeverb, Decimator, using the Multiband EQ to produce "phone
> line"-like voices, using a pitchshifter to make rapidly fast speakers
> etc - anything people could find interesting or amusing
>
> - Sound design with Csound/csfe (italian guys, are you there? :-)
>
> - Softsynths? (Spiralsound, RTSynth, ...)
>
> - Creating rhythm patterns and building a library out of it - e.g. by
> converting/enhancing the Jazzware Rhythm library to use it under MusE.
>
> - Speech synthesis? Festvox? (got no experience with that yet - anyone?)
>
> - Showing how standard MIDI files from the net can be played either with
> soundfonts on a SBLive! like card, or adapt them to the synths we're
> gonna have there
>
> - Music typesetting and printing with Denemo/Lilypond (anyone got an old
> laser printer he could bring with him?)
>
> Please think about which of these you could handle good enough to show
> it off at the fair. If there are other programs you are good at, let us
> know.
>
> That's all for now. Now, booth participants, please reply to me directly
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with the information I requested from you above.
> Anyone else, send your comments and suggestions to the list as usual.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Frank
> --
> Frank Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), VIONA Development Center
> ST Microelectronics, Karlstra�e 27, 76133 Karlsruhe
Hello,
I am sorry, but I won't be able to come to the Linuxtag: I have to be at
IRCAM precisely at this time. However, I can help setting up a demo of jMax
if you want.
Fran�ois
