Hello Kai, > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Stefan Kost wrote: > > >>Just to quickly introduce myself, as I am new to the list (and to >>linux/unix-audio too), I am working since 1983 on a audio-processing >>package which is called SoundFX (see http://www.sonicpulse.de) and is >>avaiable form the Amiga-platform since (its >> > > Welcome aboard! :)
thanks for the first encouraging reply to my post. > > >>Generally it is a quite tedious task to get a good overview about whats >>going on with unix (and especially linux) and audio, as everything is >>quite in flow. What I would like to suggest is to >> > > Well that's exactly what linux-audio-dev and linux-audio-user are all > about! Getting developers to these lists has been a slow process (LAD > started in 1998, and LAU in 2001), but things _are_ going forward. > > There are still many major developer groups dealing with multimedia that > are not actively participating on these lists. The biggest ones are groups > working on desktop environment media subsystems and game developers > (OpenAL, SDL, etc). The reason for lack of communication is usually lack > of time. These bigger developer groups already have their own mailing > lists and irc channels so they don't have much time (or need) for > LAD/LAU. And this is perfectly understandable. Although I still hope we > could maintain a line of communication. > > >>1. start a sourceforge foundry >> name suggestions : "unix media" (other names are welcome) >>2. start a sourceforge project along with the foundry, which is aplain website >project >> this way we all could easily contribute to build an informative website for >audio-development, collecting links etc. >> > > My view is that building yet another community project would just harm LAD > and LAU by further dividing the free-software and open-source developers. > > A better approach is to help build and maintain LAD/LAU related web sites > and resources. Here's a few overview/news web sites: > > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/ > http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ > http://mstation.org > http://www.linuxmusic.fr.st > The idea was brought up, because I say quite a few site a sourceforge, which have a link "<project> is part of the <foundry-name> foundry" at their top. I though it would probably useful for media-related projects too. The more I think about it, the name might not be appropriate enough (I am satisfied with the "media"-part), but the "unix"- hmmm. > > >>3. model a unified abstract architecture, so that the single projects can easily >refer to it to state in which field >> they are working (see super-simple first approach in attachment). >> LADSPA e.g. would be positioned in pluginAPI/effects, ALSA in ioHAL/audio, jack >probably pluginAPI/producer and pluginAPI/consumer >> and so on. I belive this would clearly help new developers to choose the right >technology for their tasks. >> > > This would be interesting. I'd say the LAD home page would be the right > place for it (or a separate site linked from it). > > Maybe the right approach, would be creating the sourceforge-foundry and just haveing a simple page there linking to the pages you've listed above, leaded by the lad-homepage of course. Stefan -- \|/ <@ @> Stefan Kost private business +-oOO-(_)-OOo------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - | __ Address Zwenkauer Str. 24 HTWK Leipzig, Fb IMN, Postfach 300066 | /// 04277 Leipzig 04277 Leipzig | __ /// Germany Germany | \\\/// Phone +49341 3910483 +49341 3076101 | \__/ EMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WWW http://www.sonicpulse.de |http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~kost/about.html ===-=-=--=---=---------------------------------- - - - - -
