[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora Summer Coding Idea: Musicians' Guide to Fedora

[Christopher Antila]

Hello Orcan:

Thank you for that link.  I had found the page a while ago, but then 
lost it.  It will prove to be very useful.

I have a tendency to be overly verbose, so I cut my first message short. 
  Unfortunately, I also left out some important details.  The best 
source of information on being a mentor starts here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_mentor but I 
will summarize.

My understanding is that the qualifications for being a mentor are 
relatively few.  It seems that, as long as you are able to commit to the 
time, and as long as you know the required material, then you are 
qualified.  I cannot be sure of the time commitments, and it will 
certainly depend on the requirements of the project itself.  The 
earlier-linked page has much more information, and there is a mailing 
list for mentors at Fedora.  It seems like this particular project is 
best suited for at least two mentors (one from the Docs SIG at Fedora, 
and one from either CCRMA or the Music SIG).

The comments that I have received so far have been of all sorts - but 
they all strengthen my belief that a guide through basic audio tasks 
would be highly valuable to the Fedora (Linux?) community.


Christopher.

On 05/09/2010 07:24 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I am a Canadian university student who would like to take part in the
>> Fedora Summer Coding process.  My academic background is in Music, but I
>> have taken some courses in Computer Science.  My idea is to write a
>> guide for musicians using Fedora (see the idea page here:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Fedora_Musicians'_Guide).
>>
>> The idea, basically, is to get people started with the various programs
>> available in Fedora and Planet CCRMA.  The idea page is far from a
>> complete project, so any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  What
>> I need now is a mentor to guide me through the project!  Ideally, that
>> task would be split between people from the Docs SIG, and the music
>> community (which includes Planet CCRMA.
>>
>> As before, any comments will be helpful - thank you for reviewing this
>> project.
>>
>
> Hi Christopher,
> You may find the information in our SIG page useful:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AudioCreation
> Beware though, the software list is not complete. Feel free to add to
> it. I will probably have time to update (and maybe redesign) the page
> over the summer.
>
> Can you tell us, who could qualify as a mentor for your project?
>
> Orcan