[Fedora-music-list] Some notes from a cool meeting at RH today

[Anthony Green]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:22 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Had a good chat with Adrian Likins, Steven Salevan and Luke Macken today 
> about what a "music collaboration server" might look like.  Here's a whole 
> firehose full of notes.  To Adrian/Steven/Luke, this'll probably mean more 
> -- but any questions, feel free to ask.  :)

I'm not exactly sure what you're up to, but...

The fundamental problem with real collaboration in the area is that
you're limited to working with the lowest common denomination of tools.
I, for instance, have Sonar and Reason, plus a number of plugins.  The
kind of collaboration I'm able to do is extremely limited unless the
people I'm collaborating with have exactly the same set of tools and
plugins.  People who are willing to spend money on commercial tools are
also more likely to spend money on commercial collaboration services.

In the FOSS world, however, access to tools is a non-issue.  We should
just be able to yum/apt-get them.  I think a "music collaboration
server" for FOSS-based music production makes perfect sense, but I
didn't see you mention Rosegarden/Ardour/Hydrogen.  Perhaps LASH could
be extended to work using a client server model.  Now that would be
pretty spiffy...

AG