[Advocacy] Re: Advocacy Digest, Vol 22, Issue 1

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

SJ, hey!

On 7/6/07, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ivo, hello :)  did you submit a formal developers program request?

Yes, I did.  Still haven't got an aye or nay.

> As you may know, Adir Abraham is interested in working on a bit of
> this optimization, and just applied to the program; we could use more
> hands working on these problems.

I do not know him, would you send him our way, or vice-versa?

> We are planning to ship only open formats, and would love to be able
> to recommend that schools use the same

Yes, this is a priority goal we share.

> but right now it may be too difficult for some.  We could use
> help with conversions to/from
> theora/vorbis/speex (perhaps a better public service to do this for
> those without tools), testing of speed and picking the right encoding
> settings (something we're just now working out for raw audio), and
> setting up/testing streaming from our school servers.

We need a simple universal drag and drop interface, similar to
OggDropXPd for Microsoft Windows, probably based on Qt4.  The program
should provide a tiny explanation of what each format is, and then the
user drags and drop a file there, and it gets converted to the
appropriate format.  It would in theory work with all of Xiph formats
and maybe a few other OM ones.  Something like that.

We also need to make sure that each program in the XO package is ready
to work with Open Media formats, both importing and exporting as the
default.  I would like to an audit on this, but without a XO system, I
guess I'll have to resort to emulation.

-Ivo