Hey Richard,

Hello from Dominican Republic ;o)

Freedom arrived in the islands !

M.

2006/10/24, Richard Hamel-Smith <richardhamelsmith@???>:
> Hey Jaromil, Jah love, bro.
>
> Greetings from the Third World.
>
> Trinidad, actually, West Indies.
>
> Don't know if you have a lot of correspondents from these parts, but
> reaching out in love and appreciation.
>
> A few words. I love this distro and it is a work of art. True love, true love.
>
> The thing is, I have this meet set up with this lady artist on
> Saturday. Her and the project manager for this ghetto project. I'm
> trying to sell them on the concept you are sharing. She does work
> sharing skills among the youth, so I think your distro would be a GOOD
> THING for her to use.
>
> So I've been going through the apps and trying to figure them out.
> It's been a rough ride. The quality of the user interface varies so
> much from app to app. It really brings the whole thing down.
>
> I realise you personally are not responsible for all the apps. And I
> don't really have a solution.
> But just so you know, this is the score for the day :-
>
> Xawtv works with my webcam, an Ezonics EZ-306. But when I try to
> record to an .avi file, it produces nothing at all. It does put
> something into the .wav file but since I don't have a microphone
> attached, I have no idea what it's really doing.
>
> Mplayer crashed - now I've used mplayer on other systems, so this
> looks like a configuration problem to me. I'm not a mplayer expert by
> any means, so I'm not sure what gives.
>
> Xine kinda worked, but then I got an error message "The amount of
> dropped frames is too high, your system might be slow, not properly
> optimized or just too loaded". I KNOW my system can run xine coz I've
> used it under Slackware already. Not sure what's going on here.
>
> gTranscode may work but it doesn't give any info about what kind of
> files it can process. Again, not your fault, but the look-and-feel is
> so different to the rest of the general environment, that it's a shock
> to look at. It seems so amateurish.
>
> Cinelerra looks really promising, but desperately needs a tutorial.
>
> Blender. What can I say about Blender? If ever there was a program
> that needed a demo and a step-by-step tutorial, it's Blender. The hell
> that one goes through to learn how to do ANYTHING, scares people
> anyway. And the horror is, that this is what this artist lady does. So
> I'm sure she's going to freak.
>
> On the plus side, Amarok just rocks. But your gift is about
> production, not playback.
>
> The learning curve is the killer. I know you just do GPL and I support
> that. But just bundling is not going to cut it.
>
> I'm thinking that it might be better to do simpler isos with just one
> app and a BUNCH of demos and tutorials, neatly integrated. I know your
> fans have been able to go from startup to full radio station, but
> brother, I'm just one guy trying to push this distro done here. I'm
> copying and distributing to anyone I even think has any interest in
> production, but I feel it's too big of a jump for most people.
>
> Ok, I know I'm ranting here, but years ago, my daughters had this CD
> put out by Crayola. Yeah, I know it's non-free, but the concept
> introduced them to making little cartoon movies.
>
> One of the mothers in their school, put together a little Powerpoint
> presentation with photos of the kids in the class and background music
> from some hit song. Very effective stuff.
>
> You've got all the tools here, but no way some school mom is going to
> figure out how to tie it altogether.
>
> Desperately searching for the light.
>
> Blessings,
> Richard
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