Workshops at the LAC come in different flavours:

• session to make people familiar with your software through a training or hands-on demonstration.
• request for assistance for your project: tell a group of people about your project and what kind of assistance you are looking for.
• learn from a group of [developers|composers|users] how your application can be improved.
• work with a group towards a goal, e.g. combining several pieces of software and hardware into a working system.

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Jeremy Jongepier (AutoStatic) offers to do a workshop demonstrating his recording/DAW workflow: message on LAU “…one about creating/composing/producing a song with GNU/Linux (which will actually be a presentation of my workflow with practical examples)…”

Abstract sent:

The GNU/Linux audio environment is very much based on modularity as opposed to the monolithic approach on other platforms. As a result the GNU/Linux audio environment is very flexible and can be considered more an extension of an analogue set up with its intrinsic pros and cons. This is a totally different paradigm than used on other platforms so musicians coming from those other platforms can have a hard time adapting to the GNU/Linux modular approach. The aim of this workshop is to show by the use of a musician's workflow how you can benefit from the countless possibilities such a modular environment has to offer. — Jeremy Jongepier 2011/02/21 14:14

He offered a second workshop on Jan 19th on “configuring your system for low-latency real-time audio processing”. Abstract to be sent.

Abstract sent:

Just installing GNU/Linux and a real-time kernel doesn't turn your system in a real-time low latency environment at once. A properly configured system demands some more modifications to what most distributions set up by default. And in a lot of cases a real-time kernel isn't even necessary. So besides going through some of the most important ways to improve the performance of your system this workshop may also debunk some tenacious myths. — Jeremy Jongepier 2011/02/21 14:12

Daniel James offers a workshop on 'DIY Radio Station Storage, Scheduling and Streaming with Airtime', see the Airtime homepage for background.

din is a free software musical instrument that uses Bezier curves for waveforms, gating, fm & am, delays and fx. Originally designed to play Indian classical music using the computer mouse like a bow it is now moving steadily towards a general purpose sound composition environment (live visual sound editing + Tcl scripting, IRC bot control etc). I (S Jagannathan, jagernot@gmail.com) have been developing this project for the last 4 years and hope to conduct a workshop and present if possible along with Pure Data / CSound / Super Collider presenters at LAC 2011:

main website

Bezier waveforms demo

Google code SVN

Sound samples

some videos:

Waveform editing video

MIDI support demo

Luka Princic (Nova deViator) has offered to do a presentation:

“we'd like to play our 'new' performance and we'd like to make a presentation of our latest work using linux in free software for all the media (sound, video, sensors).”

This will not include a scientific paper, so it should be regarded similar to a workshop.