Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
LAC used to be a lot about soundcard drivers and new tools/applications, none of which is a category Pd really falls into; i had the impression that a lot of old-school LACers where a bit overwhelmed (and probably frustrated) by the LAC2008 because of the focus on Pd
So, why does it switch around from ... to SC3 to Pd to ...?
People might get this impression because LAC2007 was co-organized by well-known SC3 users Stefan Kersten and Marije Baalman, while LAC2008 was co-organized by me.
But I think, this impression isn't correct: I attended every LAC since the first one. As Pd of course is one of the most important pieces of software in the Linux Audio community, it has played a major role in every LAC before (well, maybe not the first one).
This year we invited Miller for the keynote but ever other Pd user came without special invitation or financial support from LAC (We paid musicians a rather symbolic fee, but it was nothing compared to what you managed for pd~conv.)
Music and talks were selected by review boards, which consisted mostly of the same people as the year(s) before and which IMO wasn't biased, but instead had people from all major "camps" in it: experts for CSound, Pd, SC, ALSA, Jack, computer music in general etc.
But as Graz is close (flight-wise) to Cologne, IEM was there in full effect, and Hans had a talk at LAC, too, so organizing an informal meeting was only natural. Btw. I couldn't attend it neither.
Ciao