On Monday 08 March 2010 09:11:28 Linux Lingam wrote: > I used CoolEdit and GoldWave together, so got confused on which one > adobe bought. > The other two problems that must be addressed before switching over > to foss multimedia: > > 1) Creative professionals in india tend to blur and confuse their > discipline with their software-skills. Expert with 'corel-draw', > 'photoshop', 'LogicPro' is more important to say than > 'vector-illustration', 'photo-editing and pixel-imaging' and 'audio > & midi sequencing'. Thus, ten years ago designers at Mahiti felt > very insecure about moving to gimp. Likewise, the design & layout > dept at LinuxForYou won't even consider moving to inkscape,gimp, > and scribus, even though it may be demonstrated and proved to them > FOSS can handle their workflow. > > 2) in the unlikely event an organization does move to FOSS for > multimedia and creativity, hiring new staff may become a bigger > challenge. Creative professionals tend to hone their > software-skills and techniques on-the-job, year-after-year. To be > plucked away from their mainstream tools is almost professional > suicide, unless paradoxically, the alternative become the > mainstream first.
Get fresh guys and train them because... > > Let's add a third aspect: since creative staff tend to change jobs ...this is the perfect job jump preventer. ;-E > frequently (discounting global meltdown scenarios), an organization > needs a panel of internal and external resources of people, to > regularly orient new staff to use foss tools and techniques. > Sometimes, when the progenitor of foss-adoption quits, the baby > gets thrown out with with blender3d and bath water. So start training the trainers. There were requests for FLOSS animation workshops. Niyam are you willing to give one. We can try and organise in Mumbai. > thus, you need a short and medium-term strategy that is deep and > thoughtful to affect a successful migration to foss in creativity. Actually you need that before you start investing in IT (or any other biz infrastructure). However the vast majority of organisation have adhocism as the defacto IT policy. The few that start planning find themselves saddled with their past foibles and would rather continue splurging someone else's money than do the hard work. > in fact, foss hasn't yet won the expected and widespread adoption i > had hoped in the no-brainer category from the previous decade: > openoffice.org vs msoffice. Plus, even after President Abdul > Kalam's emphatic endorsement and adoption of foss, the President's > office has moved back to prop. software, according to public > reports. > > in contrast, animation FX houses that cater to hollywood films have > a highly-complex array of foss, foss-based proprietory tools, and > trade-secret tools. Yet they manage to sustain their model due to > strong IT and HR policies. > > A successful adoption for IOTA is quite possible only with a > holistic and firm strategy in place that addresses all dimensions. > I would indded love to see this CBT project succeed. > > regards to everyone, -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
