I suppose many of Sane users are dedicated to photography. Though in general I have the impression that communication between software engineers and photographers might be improved in some aspects. Mainly due to a lack of knowledge concerning software in general and the philosophy of FOSS from the photographers side. Therefore I would like to mention the Photo.net site, which contains forums concerning many topics on photography. The most active of them are shown at the front page.
Yesterday one of the forums at the front page was: "Nikon actually listening to us ?!? -- Survey", http://photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00VAkC I took the opportunity of this forum to ask Nikon to provide the source code of their driver programs and publish the communication protocols between their devices and computer. I think manufacturers and their relations are monitoring this site quite well. So it might be a good idea to push them from this site now and then in a active way. Also, sometimes it might be a good idea to monitor and participate this site to advocate Sane and FOSS or to clarify questions concerning these topics. If this is not done already. To be clear: I do not have any economic interests or affiliation with Photo.net. Thanks for your attention, Gerber van der Graaf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20091206/99c7f804/attachment.pgp>
