[Flux-announce] FLUX September Meeting Announcement

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TOPICS:  APODIO, the Musician's Linux Distro ... and a possible volunteer event!

PRESENTER:  Bob Dagit, Longtime FLUX member!

DATE:  Thursday September 14, 2006

TIME:
6:30pm Refreshments & Networking
7:00 First presentation
7:30-ish Break & Networking
7:45 or 8:00 or so Part Two

LOCATION: Nova Southeastern University, in our regular room (see
flux.org for directions)

Using a Linux Audio Distro: APODIO

Linux audio applications for authoring and performing music are coming
of age with specialty distros of their own, like APODIO, Studio-2-Go,
Musix, Agnula and more. These specialty distros often come as
installable liveCD's which can be test-run on your hardware, and
installed by scripts if your hardware is suitable. Bob will be
demonstrating some of the 'noteable' applications that are commonly
shared by these distros, using the APODIO distro.

Bob Dagit has been experimenting with Linux audio distributions,
inspired by his interest in synthesized new age music like Tangerine
Dream's. He did a presentation on windows midi software, and wrote a
review of a goodly number of those programs for Broward Personal
Computer Association several years back before switching to Linux.
After a few years, it seems, Linux music software has become
user-friendly enough for a newbie with a 3 years of piano lessons when
he was a kid!

Possible Volunteer Event!

Software Freedom Day (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org) is set for
Saturday the 16th of this month! Let's see if we can find a suitable
venue and enough volunteers to participate. Our friends at Novell have
been in touch and have offered giveaways for the event.

Since the event is only a couple days after the meeting, we will kick
off discussion on the FLUX Linux list now.  If we are able to
participate, the second part of the meeting will be for planning the
event.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! SEE YOU AT NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ON
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14th!