The March Manchester FSFE Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday
29th at 19.00 in MadLab.
Bob Ham, GNU/Linux audio developer and coordinator of Liverpool Linux User
Group, will introduce and explain the JACK Audio Connection Kit - a
professional Free Software sound server for audio recording, mixing, editing,
and more.
JACK is at the cutting edge of professional media software, and powers the
most powerful Free Software applications in the field, including:
- Ardour: http://ardour.org/
- Hydrogen: http://www.hydrogen-music.org
- Blender: http://www.blender.org/
- VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- PureData: http://puredata.info/
JACK does things that the most expensive proprietary software cannot, as was
originally funded and still developed by British programmer Paul Davis.
Bob's description:
> A short history and discussion of the JACK Audio Connection Kit, its
> operating principles, design and implementation
>
> * A short history of JACK
> * Some sound card basics
> * The JACK system
> * Demonstration
>
> The talk is a bit technical and contains phrases like "sound card buffer" and
> "callback".
There will also be discussion about recent news from the politics of Free
Software, and a report from Document Freedom Day, which takes place the day
before. Please bring your own topics for discussion with you, and present them
to the group.
How to find MadLab: http://madlab.org.uk/contact/
See you there!
Sam.
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== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19065082
This is very interesting, good to see RMS on bbc. I thought "valve will
initially support ubuntu" could have been rephrased as "ubuntu will
initially support valve" as this sounds to me like a chove on ubuntu's part
too....
I am not a gamer though - any thoughts?
Best
Anna
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I'm pleased to announce that FSFE will once again have a booth at OggCamp -
this year in Liverpool on 18th and 19th August (http://oggcamp.org/).
Please come and say hello if you'll be in attendance, and if you're able to
help run the booth please let me know. Anna (Manchester Fellow) and I will
drive down with leaflets and merchandise.
Another two volunteers would be very helpful, and mean that we can take turns
and have an opportunity to see talks.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Sam.
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thanks for the reply - does sound cool eh!! Am interested to learn more :)
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From: Samantha Bail <samanthapbail(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mcr Girl Geeks] Emacs Talk: Madlab 6/8/12 @ 7pm - FSFE meeting
To: mancggd(a)googlegroups.com
Awesome!!! I'm using Emacs as my editor of choice in the terminal, but have
been to lazy thus far to really get into it for other coding stuff.
For everyone who hasn't heard of Emacs: It's a very very powerful (free and
open source) text editor which is really popular with programmers. It takes
a while to get used to the keyboard shortcuts, but it's supposed to make
you really fast :) I recommend coming along to everyone who's getting to
grips with coding, Emacs is definitely one of those things you should have
seen and played around with.
I'll be there!
(Sent from my mobile)
On Jul 18, 2012 8:41 PM, "Anna Morris" <say.hello.to.anna(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We have an exciting talk by Francis about Emacs at this month's FSFE
> meeting. The talk will be on the 6th August in Madlab<http://madlab.org.uk/content/free-software-foundation-europe-5/http://madla…>at 7pm. Francis, who many of you know from meetings, is a MSc student at
> Manchester and will be talking about:
>
> The basics of Emacs
> Emacs features
> The Emacs state of mind
> Where to find more information
> The Emacs has a great tutorial and help system
>
> I particularly wish to congratulate Francis on getting funding for his Phd
> - I know he is working mega hard on his dissertation at the moment, so its
> very good of him to find time to give a talk!
>
> Please note that FSFE meetings are now on the first Monday of each month
>
> See you there
>
> Anna
>
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Dear All,
We have an exciting talk by Francis about Emacs at this month's FSFE
meeting. The talk will be on the 6th August in
Madlab<http://madlab.org.uk/content/free-software-foundation-europe-5/http://madla…>at
7pm. Francis, who many of you know from meetings, is a MSc student at
Manchester and will be talking about:
The basics of Emacs
Emacs features
The Emacs state of mind
Where to find more information
The Emacs has a great tutorial and help system
I particularly wish to congratulate Francis on getting funding for his Phd
- I know he is working mega hard on his dissertation at the moment, so its
very good of him to find time to give a talk!
Please note that FSFE meetings are now on the first Monday of each month
See you there
Anna
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On Monday 09 Jul 2012 12:40:56 Mark Wastling wrote:
> fine by me... would we still be having a meeting on Thursday 26th
> July, or maybe it would be better to make the next meeting Monday 6th
> August..?
As I haven't done much advertising for the 26th, I think moving to the 6th
would be OK if others agree.
David, Anna?
Sam.
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Natalie at MadLab would like us to move our meetings to the first Monday of
each month.
How does that sound to you?
Best.
Sam.
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