[Music] Fw: So, how's the expo ? (was Re: [Rosegarden-devel] link error)

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

Вот так прошел первый день разработчиков Rosegarden (MIDI sequencing) на
Linux Expo...

А.П.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bown" <bownie at bownie.com>
To: "Guillaume Laurent" <glaurent at telegraph-road.org>;
<rosegarden-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: So, how's the expo ? (was Re: [Rosegarden-devel] link error)


> On Thursday 10 October 2002 23:13, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
>
> > Damnit, and here I am waiting for you to tell me how it's going,
> > after spending all day watching slides and listening presentations at
> > the office.
>
> Well we were all absolutely wiped out by it.   We've been mad busy for
> two days - gave away 400 (music) CDs and the same amount of fliers and
> a couple of boxes of Linux User with my article on us in it.  Even sold
> a t-shirt and burned a couple of CDs with our source on it.  Been
> chatting to masses of people constantly (first day was completely
> non-stop, yesterday a bit more laid back) and made a lot of noise and
> on the whole got a very positive reaction from a lot of people.
>
> Many people couldn't believe we just gave this piece of software away.
> There were a lot of promises from individuals and some companies that
> they'd be in touch - we've got some definite contacts from big
> companies and some interesting nibbles from all sorts of angles -
> school/public sectors, small studios, bedroom musicians,
> multinationals, geeks with a love of music, musicians with a love of
> computers and general punters.
>
> We did a lot of demos - basic MIDI sequencing stuff mainly but also a
> lot of audio stuff.  We had a guitar and microphone there so we were
> recording guitar heroes and cutting up, adding effects and turning
> their snippets or tunes into compositions in roesgarden.  Again I don't
> think anyone left our area disappointed.  Chris was busy giving a lot
> of notation demos as much as I was giving sequencing demos really so it
> seems there's almost an equal interest in both "sides" of the
> application if you like.
>
> I'm still wiped out actually and I'm back off up to Olympia today to go
> to the Digital Arts expo and hand out my card a bit more.  We've been
> invited to a "computer music" expo in London in February apparently
> too.  Have to chase that one up.
>
> Once I get the pictures back (we didn't have a digital camera in the
> end, just a normal one) we'll make a web page explaining how it all
> went in more detail.
>
> B
>
>
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