Dear Puredyne Community.
I had a brief dialog with Aymeric and he suggested that I pose my request to the Puredyne community at large to see if there is anyone who would be interested in assisting me. First, a brief introduction. I work in Contemporary Dance [Modern/Post Modern] and began a program, Open Source Dance [OSD] a couple of years ago which is picking up some interest globally. In my search for "tools" for OSD, specifically Open Source tools, I came across Puredyne and have spent over a year testing it and have decided to use Puredyne as the official software product for OSD [http://www.opensourcedance.org/] Puredyne is a fantastic product and I have to say thank you to all those who worked on developing it. The request: I am not a programmer or a developer and hence this request. I am looking to package a group of applications [some found in Puredyne] as one specific application specific to dance and it needs to have the following tools in it. 1. Audio [Sound design/ editing etc for dance. All audio apps in Puredyne are currently being tested by the OSD group [dancers] to select a final few- i.e Hydrogen, Audacity etc etc] 2. Video [for editing, documentation of dance etc etc. all video/graphics apps being tested by OSD group to select a final few] 3. Notation [For notation of choreography- there are no dance notation apps in Purdyne. I have looked at a few apps out there and like Labanwriter, developed by the Dance dept. Ohio State University- below an excerpt from my dialog with David Ralley, developer at OSU dance- "Can the latest version [OSX] of LabanWriter be ported to run on a Unix/lLinux shell? It would be possible to port the routines that import, export and manipulate data to Unix without too much difficulty, but the drawing framework is not portable, and since much of the program is a visual editor, I think that would be a considerable amount of work. The file format is text, however, and available on the LabanWriter website, so you're free to create a reader and editor for Unix if you'd like." I havent talked to David about his specific interest in porting Labanwriter to Puredyne as of yet- help here needed 4. Real Time Collaborative Tools [audio/video/texting/communication - real time collaborative tools-Need help here] 5- GUI - With the addition of "Dance" in the Puredyne start menu, the interface for the real time collaborative tools could be similar to jack, where audio/video/text/communication tabs would open those specific tools as needed by the user.- Need help here] My attempt to design this above tool is motivated by the need of such a resource in the dance world and primarily in my program OSD and Puredyne can provide it. This tool can also be included in future releases of Puredyne resulting in exposure and usage of Puredyne in the Contemporary Dance world globally. Aymeric, while suggesting that I pose this to the group at large to see if there would be any interest for help, also appraised me that all of you are at different levels of commitment, resources and are limited by time, interest, financial resources etc etc. and I am greatly mindful of that. You advice, input, insights and offer of help on my request would be greatly appreciated. Again, thank you for all your work on Puredyne. Best regards Manju. -------------------------------------------- Manjunan Gnanaratnam [http://www.manjunan.com] [http://www.opensourcedance.org] "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music."-Aldous Huxley --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
