victor wrote:
summarizing: Which is the next future of PureData
Before I try to answer that question, please keep in mind that you cannot compare an open source software project to any company driven proprietary software. Lots of people have been working very hard to bring Pd to the current state and propably 99 times more people use it in their work, and I saw some great artwork done with it. Seriously, I don't know so many other "art software" packages of that size. (I am thinking of maybe blender, processing, gimp, audacity...)
But let's talk about the future. Btw there is a nice talk about open source software projects, which was given at "google talks". http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
To me it seems there is not really a clear direction of what Pd should be. Speaking as a user I only can speculate, but most probably none of the people who have contributed Pd code have ever agreed on a certain featurelist of a final version. Or whether there should be a v 1.0 at all.
But that does not mean that there is no progress. Regarding the social aspect there will be the second puredata conference in late August in Montreal. People are doing lot of work to get this running. Then there are the summer of code projects http://puredata.org/dev/summer-of-code. Other people are working on documentation and tutorials and others try to integrate all the different libraries into one release.
btw. it is too late for this year's prix ars electronica, but since there is a category "digital community" Pd definitely should go for that next year...
marius.