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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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
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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
of the FSFE.
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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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
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Hi,
Spicebird is shutting down. The following is their closing down statement to Spicebird users.
Support for Spicebird has been discontinued. We thank our loyal users for all the support and recommend you to migrate to Mozilla Thunderbird for a similar customizable and open experience.
Why stop further development and Support?
Spicebird isn't as relevant as it was when the project started. A few months after we started working on Spicebird, Mozilla Messaging emerged and development was active again. Many features that kept Spicebird stand out started getting introduced into Thunderbird. Thunderbird began evolving so rapidly that it was really hard for Spicebird to keep up.
Where is the source code?
The latest source code is available for download (http://spicebird.org/spicebird-0.8-latest.tar.bz2), but it is based on a pretty old version of Thunderbird. It will be great if you can drop us a line about how you plan to use the source code — some of us might even help you in the new project!
Is there anything else coming from here?
There are plans to push some of the Spicebird features as Thunderbird addons
Contact
For help in migration check our notes on migrating to Thunderbird. For any further questions or suggestions we are available at contact(a)spicebird.org
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