From: Christian Esken <c.esken@cityweb.de>
To: KDE Devel <kde-devel@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: 	Sat, 8 May 1999 14:20:01 +0200
Subject: Join the KDE Multimedia Team

Dear developers,

this is a call to join the KDE multimedia team.

Thanks to the Mail from Preston, it could be seen that there is much
more interest in the development of KDE compliant multimedia applications
than some months ago.

This makes me very happy, as I am always happy about new multimedia apps.
Secondly, this could take a lot of load from my shoulders - I would drop
the "integrating backend players in a common UI" task and concentrate on
the audio server stuff.

So please join the KDE multimedia team, if you are interested in a joint
effort to create a generic KDE multimedia environment.



What is the "KDE multimedia team"?
The KDE multimedia team is a loosely connected group of people who do
KDE multimedia applications. Discussions are held on kde-multimedia.

Todays status: KDE Multimedia team has several big projects going
on. In there I see two branches:

Highend Multimedia, done by Stefan Westerfeld, using CORBA technology,
integrating audio and midi. This seems to be targeted especially at
musicians, and other people who need very tight audio/midi integration
(Please correct any mistakes on my side, Stefan).

Desktop and Game Multimedia, done by me (Christian Esken). I am doing a
multimedia server architecture, including filters and so on. The new audio
server is targeted as integration platform for all digital audio
applications (using mixing, being network transparent and so on).

Stefan and my project are partly overlapping. Both are doing audio stuff,
and both projects do evolve and we will see later if there is some
"merging" or "interfacing" possible.

Surely this is not all - there are several other interesting KDE
applications like KooBase.


Any KDE multimedia author, please join by writing "subscribe" to
kde-multimedia-request@kde.org . Please come back to me, if you
have trouble subscribing.

Thanks for the time reading,
  Christian

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