I have been part of partnerships and similar things involving students
contributing to open source, or using them. This is actually not as hard
as everyone is making it to be. :D To me important things are:
1) Ubuntu studio wouldn't have their label (obviously)
2) they could contribute (as already said) sound files and works that
are labeled to be NES, as well as tutorials. (MOOCs or videos of
lectures anyone?) Assuming everything being creative commons. preferably
CC-SA. I don't see that as advertisement. Unlike a nestle soundfont
where somebody else would be creating the soundfont, the New England
conservatory would be actually making the said soundfont.
3) Their students can have experience creating music that is in creative
commons, and optionally give feedback and file bugs so that contributing
back to the community is part of the experience.
4) I assume the whole talking to the dean, aspect that they see this as
a making a business deal with a commercial company to use their
software. In this case, it is completely unnecessary. Ubuntu studio is
open source and free. They don't need to make a business deal with us to
use it.
5) I do actually wonder if this couldn't begin small. E.g. one class on
open source music software, then gradually move from there, rather than
trying to switch suddenly. (If I am understanding this correctly)
Just some thoughts on the topic.
autumna
On 05/29/2016 12:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2016 10:32:33 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote:
FOSS and GNU/Linux is forged in a quite new and
ground-breaking vision of how copyright should operate. I'm underlining
this because how you let them
* Having their name on something
could have very counter productive effects on your plan, or make it
plain incompatible with FOSS on a legal level.
Copyright could mean Creative Commons copyright licenses. I didn't
reply on Friday, but read the OP's mail and read both, the Debian and
Ubuntu policies regarding creative commons requirements, for e.g. sound
fonts. The copyright shouldn't be an issue, if just the name should be
mentioned, e.g. new-england-conservatory-sound-font. Camouflaged
advertising might be an issue or at least ethical aspects could be
a problem, I doubt that monsanto-sound-font or nestle-sound-font are
wanted, but a new-england-conservatory-sound-font might be ok.
However, is there such a sound font already available?
Data bases with sounds could be helpful, but there are already several
data bases with needed sounds available and nobody has the time to make
a sound font from the available sounds.
I'm not an Ubuntu (Studio) team member, just interested in sharing
help, software, whatsoever ...
Has anybody ever made a sound font? If so, what software did you use
to make the sound font?
Regards,
Ralf
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