[PlanetCCRMA] [Fedora-music-list] Summer Coding Idea for a Musicians' Guide to Fedora

[Niels Mayer]

Here's a few existing guides for your Fedora Music documentation project:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html
http://linux-sound.org/one-page.html
http://linux-sound.org/plugins.html
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/ e.g.
** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/en/chapter-0.html
** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/zyn/zyn.html
** http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/supplemental/hydrogen/
http://electronaut.linuxgamers.net/~lsd/music/synthtute/part01_overview.ogv
http://orford.org/assets/jack.php
http://www.linuxjournal.com/taxonomy/term/28


IMHO, rather than a one-person authored guide, what might end up better
standing the test of time: setup and cultivate the structure of a "living"
wiki-based site for the purpose of documenting Fedora audio/video
tools&hardware -- in a cohesive, up-to-date, and fedora-relevant fashion. I
recommend the LGPL'd platform XWiki as it's far more flexible/modern/secure
than most "first generation wikis".. (some web-apps I'm doing using
http://xwiki.org and http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ on F12:
http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png
http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-evnt-anls.png
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 ). The latest version
of XWiki has awesome wysiwyg AJAX editor, as well as openoffice-based
document importer -- this will open up authorship to those that might not
have time/patience to contribute through the existing fedoraproject wiki.

The other thing that would be very helpful ( oh Redhat! :-) ) would be an
accompanying "live-cd" (actually 1-2 DVD(s) or USB thumbdrive) that any
windows user could plug into their box and get a solid, realtime-enabled 64
bit (hardware permitting) media-editing && production workstation out of
their existing windows box -- while only touching a single directory in
their existing windows install. It would be a best-of-breed amalgamation of
the CCRMA rt-kernel and tools from fedora and rpmfusion repositories -- all
on one DVD: the goal of the site would be to document the DVD; the goal of
the DVD would be to provide a working implementation of the site. There
needs to be some concerted "muscle" to implement
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraStudio .... [[ for legality
puporposes, it would need to automatically download/install and shadow-link
files off the net from rpmfusion nonfree distros so that
crucial/showstopper-if-missing media formats (e.g. mp3) are supported "at
the click of a button" (and perhaps dismissal of a legal disclaimer :-) ).
]]

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
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