[Nolug] Re: NOLUG Visit from Stanford?

Carr,

Absolutely! I'll have to make some arrangements, but yeah..

Hey John D., you'll want to hear this guy when he comes.

Oh, and sorry for the top-posting, but I wanted to forward this to the
NOLUG list, and this seemed to be the best format.

--Joey

On 10/2/06, Carr Wilkerson <carrlane@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I've been shadowing your list for years, starting when I was in the Tulane EE
> Graduate program (2002-2004). Unfortunately, I never went to a meeting ...
> graduate studies...
>
> I was living in NOLA until Katrina, and ended up in the SF Bay area working a
> temporary teaching gig at CCRMA (They kindly took me in. I was there for a
> music technology masters just before arriving at Tulane. I noticed that you
> have planetCCRMA linked from you website. Thanks!!). That gig turned into a
> permanent position as the Assistant Sys Admin to Fernando Lopez-Lescano (the
> maintainer/developer of planetCCRMA). This fortune boggles my mind to this day.
>
> So, both of us will be in New Orleans for the International Computer Music
> Conference which takes place at Tulane University Nov 6-11. www.icmc2006.org
>
> We thought it might be nice to meet with NOLUG one afternoon and sort of give
> a presentation of what we are up to, and roll out our (hopefully to be
> completed) Fedora Core 5 planet DVD for you. (Just in time for the Core 6
> release, argh!!) We're also interested in hearing about your projects, and
> about other Open Source projects in New Orleans.
>
> Part of the idea from our end is taking data about what kind projects exist,
> esp. with respect to the recovery (if there aren't then that is data, too!),
> and how Open Source (in our case, music) software may be distributed and used
> esp. were resources are limited. We figured you were the experts. The other
> motivation for the visit is just spending time with the tribe. :)
>
> It looks like we can break out of the conference on Thursday November 9th,
> maybe for a late afternoon thing. I realize you all work for a living. Would
> that be something you would be interested in?
>
> Yours,
>
> Carr
>
> ps. I may even have an opportunity the week before to actually visit some of
> your or other places around town and see what folks are doing. Any ideas?
>
> Carr Wilkerson
> Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~carrlane
>
>

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
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