On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, I. Read wrote:
being very active. I don't have any first hand experience with the jMax chat crowd, but I would imagine the user base is (a) similarly sized and (b) similarly inclined as the pd crowd, even prior to considering technical compatability between the two programming environments.
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I would really like to see this happen. I've found it fairly difficult to locate like-minded music geeks of the pd/jMax variety, so being able to meet in an IRC channel brings everything closer to tangibility.
The jMax crowd is much smaller imho. The jMax _chat_ crowd is about the same size as the PD chat crowd. However, as it is now, an overwhelming majority of discussions occurring on that channel are about video (Pixonix/VDSP and GridFlow), not audio nor midi nor 3D.
I hope that a channel in which there are both people interested in audio and people interested in video, will motivate more people to do both at once. Similarly, I hope that a channel about both jMax and PD will cause one program to import features of the other program, by circulation of ideas and wishes. Not sure this will happen, and I don't have real expectations in that direction; but certainly a bigger channel would feel livelier on average.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju