[Ardour-Users] Ardour Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint, 23-27.11.09 Rotterdam NL

[Derek Holzer]

Dear Ardour users,

we will be starting this book sprint tomorrow afternoon in Rotterdam. I 
didn't get a lot of replies from this list, so I wanted to post one more 
time. Specifically, we're looking for:

1) Ardour users who would be interested to help with one or more of the 
chapters we have outlined below. This could involve writing or making 
screenshots.

2) Ardour users who would be willing to proofread and correct chapters 
that are almost completed later in the week. Mainly this would involve 
seeing if the instructions in the tutorials are correct (perhaps by even 
following them in Ardour yourself) as well as looking at things like 
readability, consistency, spelling etc etc.

Please get in touch via email. I will try to be on #ardour some times as 
well, and there is also the #flossmanuals IRC channel lwhich we will use 
for communicating.

Hope to hear from some of you and best wishes!
Derek

Derek Holzer wrote:
> Ardour Workshop + FLOSS Manuals Book Sprint
> 
> Hosted by: moddr_lab/WORM, FLOSS Manuals and Derek Holzer
> 
> Monday 23 November to Friday 27 November, 2009
> Day session: 13:00-17:00 (GMT +1)
> Evening session: 18:00-22:00 (GMT +1)
> Location (physical): moddr_lab, Willem Buytewechstraat 188, Rotterdam,
> the Netherlands
> Location (online): http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/
> 
> Introduction to FLOSS Manuals by Adam Hyde
> 21.00, Friday 20 Nov at WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam
> http://agenda.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=2888
> 
> Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and
> digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. New
> and experienced users of Ardour are invited to "learn by documenting"
> during this combination workshop and book sprint.
> 
> A book sprint brings together a group of writers, editors and artists to
> go from an outline to a published book in just five days. We will use
> this format to give workshop participants tasks which they will learn to
> complete in Ardour, and which they will then document for the Ardour
> FLOSS Manual. This is an exciting opportunity both to acquire new skills
> as well as share them with others in the form of a book!
> 
> The workshop will be split into two sessions: an evening session
> focusing on learning the software and creating chapters for the FLOSS
> Manual, and an afternoon session focusing on editing, proofreading and
> correcting the workshop texts. At the end of the week, we hope to have a
> beginner's manual covering these and other topics:
> 
> Introduction: What is Ardour?
> 
> Installing Jack & Qjackctl: Linux
> Installing JackOSX: OSX
> Installing Ardour: Linux
> Installing Ardour: OSX
> Installing Jamin: Linux
> Installing Jamin: OSX
> 
> Getting Started: the user interface
> Getting Started: using JACK to interface with the soundcard and other
> applications
> 
> Audio Tutorial: editing and arranging existing audio
> Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with the soundcard
> Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with other applications
> Audio Tutorial: using automation
> Audio Tutorial: using LADSPA and VST plugins
> Audio Tutorial: mixing down tracks
> Audio Tutorial: mastering with Jamin
> Audio Tutorial: exporting to file and CD
> 
> etc etc
> 
> Participants who would like to join us in Rotterdam should sign up via:
> workshop at moddr.net
> 
> Interested remote participants should create a login on the Ardour FLOSS
> Manual page: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/
> and communicate with us via the FLOSS Manuals chat interface on the
> website or at: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals
> during the working times listed.
> 
> Further info/references:
> 
> Ardour: http://ardour.org/
> Ardour reference manual (in progress):
> http://vm-nice.stackingdwarves.net:8888/ardour-en/1-ARDOUR.html
> Ardour reviewed by Kim Cascone:
> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/ 
> 
> Old Ardour tutorial (cached): http://tinyurl.com/ardour-tutorial
> FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/
> moddr_lab: http://moddr.net/
> WORM: http://wormweb.nl/
> Derek Holzer: http://umatic.nl/info_derek.html
> 

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