Hello Crumb list,
Perhaps I can start this discussion by taking people back to their
first experiences with open source. In my case I was developing work
using old 8bit consoles and needed a set of development tools to
compliment this work. I had heard about a particular piece of
software called Puredata and travelled to montevideo in Amsterdam for
a 5 day training course. I arrived with my shiny windows laptop
thinking I understood how it worked and what I could do with it.
Within about 2 hrs of arriving windows had been erased and replaced
with Linux (the planet ccrma distro at that time). On returning home
I realised I could no longer use my computer and would have to
develop a whole new set of skills. Rising to this challenge it became
apparent that in order to develop work within this environment I
would have to become more socially engaged with the community of
users / developers. Perhaps one of the first mistakes I made was to
look for open source equivalents of proprietary software /
development environments rather than to engage with the open nature
of the system.
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Dominic
http://ptechnic.org/
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