Hello all,

A little over a year ago, I came to the Fedora project to revive and modernize the Fedora Jam project. I have successfully done that. My vision was that it would be a great way to help develop and test the most recent advancements in Linux audio.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, life has a way of changing for the good or the bad. Back in November, I was offered an opportunity that I could not pass-up: becoming the User Experience Director for the Kubuntu Focus brand of laptops made by MindShareManagement. Since then, I have become an integral member of that team, directly reporting to the CTO, CEO, and President, working directly with the PR and Sales and Marketing directors. It has been a blast, and is a project that works directly with Ubuntu and Debian to create, as we put it, the "Ultimate Linux Laptop". As a MOTU for Ubuntu, this was a perfect fit.

I didn't come here to be a shill for Ubuntu or to advertise my work, but rather, to illustrate the level of involvement. It has taken up a majority of my time, and my work with Ubuntu Studio is directly involved with the project as well as both Ubuntu Studio and the Kubuntu Focus laptop have similar synergies.

Because of the amount of time involved in these projects, something has to give. For that reason, I must step-down as Fedora Jam maintainer. My plan is to continue to maintain certain packages within Fedora (which, admittedly, I've been slacking on), but I am orphaning the vast majority of my packages. Here's the list:

Add64

dssi

dssi-vst

fedora-jam-backgrounds*

fedora-jam-kde-theme*

fluidsynth

fluidsynth-dssi

freqtweak

gnome-guitar

harmony-seq

hexter-dssi

jackctlmmc

jmeters

libinstpatch

lv2-c++-tools

lv2-fabla

lv2-ll-plugins

lv2-mdaEPiano

lv2-newtonator

lv2-sorcer

lv2-swh-plugins

lv2-vocoder-plugins

meterbridge

non-daw

portmidi

radium-compressor

realTimeConfigQuickScan

whysynth-dssi

xsynth-dssi

*These packages have pagure repos which I'd be happy to hand over to whoever takes these.

I do want to thank everyone for the opportunity, including Matthew Miller, Ben Cotton, Neal Gompa, and many others that helped me revive this project. I'm sad to let it go, and I'm not sure what's going to happen to it, but I hope someone who has a passion for the latest technologies in Linux Audio and music production can take it over.

Thanks,

Erich Eickmeyer