updated jam build
by Ian Malone
A new build of the Jam is available at
http://imalone.fedorapeople.org/ N.B. that the Fedora beta hasn't been
finalised yet, so this is still pre-beta software and the may be bugs
in the installer.
Unlike the previous one this is a vanilla (strawberry?) jam spin, so
you'll see a blank background: the jam theme isn't available through
the repos yet so isn't used here, but the Jam background is included
if you want to use it.
--
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
11 years, 5 months
Ideas for Banner
by Onyeibo Oku
Hellos
We're considering Fedora-Jam (spin) for highlight at
http://fedoraproject.org/ webpage for F18. I would appreciate insight
on packaged tools in the spin that can inspire a banner design on that
page. Its possible Ardour3 will be ready for F18 so a cool screenshot
from someone running the beta will be great.
What else?
Regards
Onyeibo
11 years, 5 months
Important dates
by Jørn Loamx
Time is flying and we are already in November. There are some important
dates we should be looking at this month[1]. The package freeze for
spins is on the 19. November, so we have a little under 3 weeks to get
that in order. This is also the date that the kickstart spins are
branched to create the f18 spins branch. The final change deadline is on
the 26, so we need to have our stuff together by then.
I'm going to do an overhaul of the kickstart in this coming week, so any
packages we are missing, put up on the wiki under the *must have*
packages list, or just send me a message and i will make sure they get
into the spin. 3 weeks might seem like a lot, but if October is anything
to measure things by, we are running out of time.
[1]http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-spins-tasks.html
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Jørn Lomax
CS student University of Tromsø
11 years, 5 months
A quick spin vox-pop
by Ian Malone
A week or so ago I thought I'd canvas some opinion on what people
might want from the spin. So I asked at the Rob Chapman guitar forums,
Rob is probably best known for gear demos and lessons on youtube, and
for starting a guitar company that makes collaboratively designed
guitars. So these are people who are used to community participation,
but not necessarily free software (though I probably skewed that a bit
by using their geeks forum).
Anyway, discussion seems to have finished, so here's the thread:
http://www.robchapman.tv/forum/threads/fedora-jam-music-creation-collecti...
Not a whole lot of new ideas. There are a few people already using
Linux for audio production and they are generally happy with what they
already use, not very surprising as they probably wouldn't be using it
if they weren't. However things that came up:
1. Hardware support. Not much we can do from a spin/music-list point
of view to improve driver support, but worth having advice and links
to the Alsa matrix visible somewhere. There is a lot of supported
gear, but there are people like digitalscream who've got hardware
which is unlikely to work.
2. Integration. Touched on, things need to work without too much
setup. This is even more important since it seems the spin will be the
starting point for people new to linux audio. It's not the primary
goal of the music list effort (that's really the packaging that
Brendan and others are doing), but it does serve as a showcase for
that work.
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imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
11 years, 5 months
