[art] Friday night at DIVA

[Ben Barrett]

I ended up speaking for a minute about Linux/FOSS around 11 or 
11:30p.... I showed up late, myself, but enjoyed the event immensely.  I 
was really happy to see they were already explaining the technical bent 
of things pretty well; the Creative Commons flash videos are very 
newbie-friendly.

As for music-typesetting, I think Gnu Lillypond is the main package, but 
there are various frontends... one or more of which *may* allow 
generation of audio files from it (possibly via MIDI synthesis?)...

And as for alter-abled linux distro's, I think I remember one of the 
many Knoppix variants being tuned for exactly such a thing.  T. Joseph 
Carter is legally blind IIRC and might have some good info on that -- 
contact me off-list if you don't have his contact info (he's been active 
in EUGLUG for years now).

regards,

    Ben


Brian Gallagher wrote the following on 1/31/2005 8:15 AM:

>Well that was interesting!
>
>Jackson Pollack paintings / fractal connection was a stretch for me, but
>it drew me out of my cave and I got to see some art.
>
>Ben did you make it down there?  I didn't stay long, but this is a place
>to get involved long term.  I did manage to plug Linux to one hapless
>soul, not that I know what I'm talking about. 
>
>Blender is on the back-burner, but not for long.  Sorry for not
>responding to those queries.  I have to work on wireless and server
>stuff while I have this low-cost broadband opportunity.
>
>To Do List (besides the above)
>
>I am using freeware called Musette (WinXx) that lets the user design
>sheet music then converts it to a WAV file.  Any one know of a OSS
>equivalent?
>
>Anyone here work with the Gnopernicus screen reader,i.e., system
>requirements off the top of your head.  I need a rock-solid presentation
>for my sightless friends.  I did a quick Google with no success.  I am
>running it on a Celeron 466 MHz w/ 768 MB.  I haven't played with the
>text mode yet!  I wish I had grabbed one of those cases that EFN was
>tossing by the bin full, so I could build a 486 box, from my parts bin,
>and see where the bottom of Linux really is!
>
>Brian 
>  
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