Sometimes, people would just like to listen to music - particularly members of the public who are frequently the target audience of SFD events. And if you can tell a member of the public that the music is "open" in the sense that the music can be distributed, sampled and mixed with the artists' blessing, it does bring home in a much more direct manner what software freedom is all about. Plus, we like music :-) (although not necessarily Sex Pistols and death metal, which we will try to avoid) Robert. On 11/06/07, Douglas A. Whitfield <whitdoug@email.unc.edu> wrote:
What exactly is the point of the music? I can see videos and such being educational/useful, but are the Sex Pistols going to do their rendition of "God Save Microsoft"? Don't get me wrong, some death metal grunting about FOSS would float my boat, but I fail to see the value in this when it comes to SFD. I could see examples of music created in open source software being useful, but that kind of seems like a niche. Plus, just having the music doesn't tell the individual how hard/easy it was to create the piece in the software.
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*From:* sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org [mailto: sfd-discuss-bounces@sf-day.org] *On Behalf Of *Robert Schumann *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2007 5:05 PM *To:* Fabian Rodriguez *Cc:* Team discussions about SFD *Subject:* [Spam:11.5] [SFD-discuss] Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams
To be clear, the suggestion is that the CD we send doesn't contain any software: it will likely contain only music and video footage.
Thanks everybody for your suggestions - keep them coming. It is very helpful for us to get an idea of what teams are looking for from us.
Robert.
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