An excerpt from an email from Jim re equipment for the friday workshops;
"Equipment wise- I need to draw up a possible equipment list soon. We
have two video projectors- I found another one today in access space-
that made me happy! The sound sytem in access is not bad. We have a few
sets of good computer speakers- perhaps 5 and more that are just
average. We have 10 networked medium spec computers running Mandriva
2006 or 2007. Most have reasonable sound capabilities and will be able
to run some software such as Supercollider and can try others if I know
what."
So seems good but we'll have to have reserved places I think - there
will be ~ 25 presenters/performers alone
Looking forward to it :)
alex
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 19:12 +0100, dave wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 11:38 +0100, Reg Ludions wrote:
> > Hello Dave et al.
> >
> > On 6 Jun 2007, at 13:41, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We (Andrew Sorensen, Julian Rohrhuber and I) have been working on the
> > > format of the workshop session for the Friday morning at the LOSS
> > > Livecode
> > > festival.
> > >
> > > We'd like to know a little bit about what you'd want to use this
> > > session
> > > for, and the kind of things that would be most beneficial to the
> > > participants.
> > >
> > > Firstly, is a hands on workshop useful (covering basic programming and
> > > more juicy possibilities later),
> >
> > yes I agree with Nick here, there will be plenty of time for
> > presentations etc elsetime, see below.
> >
> > > or are you all hardcore hackers
> >
> > we're not all programming and/or linux experts, certainly not during
> > the first moments of a conf...?
> >
> > > who want to use the time to discuss the features of the 3
> > > livecoding systems
> > > (Supercollider, Impromptu and Fluxus) in more of a presentation/panel
> > > format?
> >
> > as above, surely this would naturally come sometime after the sat
> > presentations?
> >
> > I'd vote for something like a gentle _hands-on_ introduction to the
> > main systems in turn, the main emphasis could be getting simple
> > things running on peoples machines, the more theoretical issues would
> > be kept for later.
> >
> > This would mean though some organisation in advance so everyone could
> > have the appropriate builds on their own machines?... Perhaps some
> > clear links/instructions on the wiki so we could come prepared? Would
> > something like this be feasible?
>
> Well, we do have access to some machines we could potentially install
> software on, I need to find out more about that. I think that would be
> ideal, as it doesn't restrict the workshop to people with laptops - also
> we can install workshop material ready to use.
>
> I was also thinking of bringing a bunch of pure:dyne CD's which will
> boot on any intel machine (I think) and contain supercollider and
> fluxus, but that doesn't help with impromptu.
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
Received on Mon Jun 11 2007 - 09:37:49 BST