Education based UbuntuStudio Live disk.
Aim to provide a live cd that can record music, make music and teach music. Using a low memory footprint by making a tmpfs or persistent filesystem on a thumbdrive or existing harddrive. Will not be targetted at high end systems, but instead, a plausible system for developing countries and music schools with limited resources. A live system under 512mb of RAM is a goal. Also, realtime or low-latency for recording and MIDI input.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Blocked
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá
- Completed by
- Luis de Bethencourt Guimerá
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Thumbdrives are a great idea :) A move from the standard 3.5" floppies which used to store people's midi files from a sequencer, instead you can use a thumbdrive as your home directory, with all your audio projects. Although you might run out of space if you record some long WAVs...
Perhaps you could extend this idea to a school setup, the pupils arrive with their own headphones and pen drive....
the computer is just a terminal and makes no difference which one they use :)
I'm not sure if the live cd is such a good idea for this project... wouldn't it make more sense to have a fully installed system with realtime kernel for each terminal? Or are you suggesting people boot off combination of thumbdrive + cdrom... actually that might be good...
Maybe the design should be based around 1 main computer for NFS in the classroom so people can dump long WAVs to an NFS share and only store their audio projects + config + extra tmpfs on usb stick.... just ideas (not sure how latency would work)
That way, your server would also act as the school registration... you handle the pupils by logging into the server and adding/removing students (automatically creates NFS home directory etc) :)
So you might have a server-edubustu + client-edubustu-ppc + client-edubustu-x86 release :)
Then perhaps the server would have a set of home-built powered speakers (on a budget to fit with the target audience - developing countries) hooked up to share everyones music with the class and suggest improvements :) too much fun?! Part of the documentation could include plans and where to buy the parts for the speakers/amp....
possibilities are endless on this project!
Damo
