Hi Richard

If you don't mind a little hacking, you might want to look at my
Incognito dyne mod, which uses the non free Runtime Revolution RAD
to create a free runtime, plus some shell scripting to create what
sounds a bit like your Crayola. The howtos are all on the net. You
can use the code to figure how to suit your school lady's needs, or
use the package as is.

www.stomfi.net

Kind Regards, Stomfi, Down Under. an island in the south.

Richard Hamel-Smith wrote:
> 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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