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On 04/27/2012 02:18 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:

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>> http://lau.linuxaudio.org/

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>>   302 -> http://linux-audio.com/

>>   Linux Audio Users Guide - some useful information (read-only curated

>>   by P.Shirkey)

>>   IMHO the content of this site should be merged into

>>    http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/

>>   and

>>    http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/newbie

>>   to allow to being updated by the LAU community.

>>

>>   The content was deleted from LAO on April/22/2012 after it

>>   was migrated to linux-audio.com by its maintainer.

>>   We do have a backup in case s.o want to keep it alive at LAO

>>

>>   ?? keep redirect | use wiki ??

>>

>> http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org/

>>   301 -> http://quicktoots.linux-audio.com/

>>   Tutorials - mostly pre 2004

>>   the up-to-date stuff should probably go to flossmanual.net

>>

>>   the content was deleted from LAO on April/22/2012 after it

>>   was migrated to  linux-audio.com by its maintainer.

>>   We do have a backup in case s.o want to keep it alive at la.org

>>   ?? -> should be removed ??

>>

>

>

> So you actually want to absorb all of the content 

"absorb content" - LOL. That's even better than "consume" :)
> that I pulled together

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> over the years and compete with linux-audio.com on search? 

Nah, I won't do anything of that sort.
> Hardly in the

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> best interests of the community but as the content is FDL or CC licensed

> no one can stop you.

IMHO the best for the community would would be to collect end-user

targeted _manuals_ and _tutorials_ on https://flossmanuals.net/  - It

allows proper maintenance of the text. Remixing, printing, translations,

layouting, and what not.. - It's also the site that most newbies check

first.
Some of the lau.linuxaudio.org stuff however should IMO go into the

linux-audio-user wiki.

Do you have any objection to that?
> BTW, the content was originally migrated to LAO from DJCJ.org. You may not

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> be aware the the lau-guide, linuxvst, lowlatency howto and quicktoots were

> originally hosted at djcj.org. They are certainly not the property of LAO

> and had almost no contributions from LAO members since they were migrated.

Sure, you've mentioned that a few times before. and yes I'm aware of it

because I've created the vhost and account for you around 2005/06. I'm

not sure how this is relevant to the current discussion however, but

we're actually really grateful for most of your efforts and the time you

invested. It's a bit sad to see you depart because of - IIUC - a handful

of advertisement bucks.  ..or is it about your independence from the

consortium and community?
[..]
>> http://lowlatency.linuxaudio.org/

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>>   low-latency info for linux-2.2 and linux-2.4

>>   some general good info but pretty much outdated.

>>   it's a single page in that v-host. Should become a wiki-page

>>   ?? 301 -> http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/lowlatency ??

>>

>

> This single page has a history which you may not be aware of. It was the

> most highly read page for a number of years. Deleting it seems like a

> travesty to me. It should have a place of honour in the LAO hall of

> fame...

> 

You got a point there. Now, we only need a hall-of-fame.
lowlatency.linuxaudio.org now redirects to the wiki. The wiki-page has a

note about the history of it at the top (feel free to edit - the wiki

does keep a history and provides permanent URLs) and also links to a

.tgz of the original HTML, which can - one day - be used in the

hall-of-fame. Meanwhile there's

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://lowlatency.linuxaudio.org/
Being wiki-syntax, provides for easy copy/paste. Some of the content

that's still relevant these days can be merged into other - up-to-date

wiki-pages.
>> http://awards.linuxaudio.org/

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>>   an initiative started by P. Shirkey in 2009 - seems dead

>>   ?? not sure ??

>>

>

> There wasn't enough interest from the community so the project was

> abandoned. Feel free to zap it.

Ack.
# zap awards.linuxaudio.org

zap: command not found

:) - I will look into that later.
>> http://label.linuxaudio.org/

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>>   an initiative by P. Shirkey(?) in 2011 - never got started

>>   ?? not sure - delete it ?!

>>

>

> This never happened.

>

> Given that there is no interest in "for profit"

> activities at LAO it probably never will.

> Can't see anyone having the time or motivation to run a label as a volunteer.

>

> --

> Patrick Shirkey

> Boost Hardware Ltd

http://lam.fugal.net/ is not exactly a "label"; but works just fine sine

9 years.
While LAO is not officially a 501(c). Non-profit has always been an

integral part of the linuxaudio organization and consortium.
However, that does not mean that we can't promote or support [linux]

musicians who in turn make profit. A LAO label may pay off indirectly:

Someone may volunteer to pull it off for that reason.
For the time being, filtering http://planet.linuxaudio.org/ for music or

running a dedicated planet that only aggregates sounds might be a

start... thoughts?
robin

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