Some thoughts below about why I suggested Christopher continue this and ask for mentors from the Fedora Audio SIG. If anyone from the Docs Team is interested in mentoring, I think a dual-mentoring situation might work here. This is because writing a guide for Fedora involves two parts -- the working with the technical side on the content, and working with the documentation side on production and publishing. Docs folks -- read on to understand more and where to go next if you are interested in mentoring. On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:09:08PM -0400, Christopher Antila wrote: I've been on the fedora-music-list and music(a)lists.fedoraproject.org since the list was started, so I am somewhat familiar with the challenges around PlanetCCRMA and Fedora. I am *very pleased* and equally impressed with the hard work the CCRMA team puts in to making things work with Fedora. Having a Fedora Musicians' Guide that focuses on getting Fedora and PlanetCCRMA working together as a digital audio workstation might be a good way to bring more audiophiles, audio professionals, prosumers, and amateurs (like me!) to using this great combination. Christopher needs a mentor who can work with him in getting the guide written. I suggested he ask from the music-list/Audio SIG because you all are the people who know the subject best. Also, a certain portion of his work will happen on this list. That's what Fedora Summer Coding does, brings students to work on real open source projects, similar to Google Summer of Code. We've long talked about doing content as well as code. That opens the doors to books as well as video, music, and other expressions that support the Fedora Project. We can't be sure that Christopher's project will get funded this year, but with a mentor it can proceed anyway. If you'd like to know more, start here and/or email me for more information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_mentor The idea page is up already, so this is where Christopher's proposal starts from: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Fedora_Musician... - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

Hello Niels (and everybody): The format of the guide is not yet finalized. A wiki has its advantages, but a "published" guide gives a large dose of credibility, among other things. As for a dedicated spin, I agree that this would be a great thing to have. It is well beyond my abilities, and would probably require the collaboration of many students and non-students. Depending on how things progress, it might be worth further investigation next year. Thank you for the links to existing guides. I have found a few of them already, but it is obviously important to read widely before authoring yet another guide. I would like to invite the music and PlanetCCRMA communities to comment on my (draft!) proposal, which I just posted. Any input received at this point, in particular with the guide's final format, will be taken very seriously. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_-_Fedora_Musici... Thank you, Christopher. On 05/09/2010 06:47 PM, Niels Mayer wrote: