[Spam:11.5] [SFD-discuss] Re: [SFD-announce] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams

[Robert Schumann]

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 at email.unc.edu> wrote:
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>  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 at sf-day.org [mailto:
> sfd-discuss-bounces at 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
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> 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.
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> Robert.
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