Hi everybody,
I am pleased to announce that the Structured Audio
Open Group (SAOG) is beginning its activity. SAOG comes from a
common initiative of the MIT Media Lab and of the EPFL Integrated
Systems Laboratory, willing to join their efforts to further the
acceptance and diffusion of the MPEG-4 Structured Audio toolset.
As already discussed on this e-list, the main goals of SAOG are two:
1. to support the public need for open-source implementations of the MPEG-4
Structured Audio (SA) tools and applications that make use of them.
2. to make and maintain connections to industry in areas where the SA tools apply,
such as software synthesis, game development, studio applications, and electronic
musical instrument industries.
SAOG intends to be an open-discussion and open-source community, due
to the nature of the SA toolset; at the same time it tries to be attentive to the needs
of companies working on complete MPEG-4 Audio and/or Systems tools. In this
sense the open-source "constraint" is limited to SA-related parts of a specific
tool. A SAOG agreement clearer and much better structured than the first
draft (and than this e-mail) is available on the SAOG web pages:
http://sound.media.mit.edu/saog
or
http://lsiwww.epfl.ch/saog
SAOG will work through:
1) the Forum, i.e. a mailing-list, a page of links and advertisements, pages for
papers, data, experimental results, benchmarks, etc.
2) Projects, i.e. open-source packages on which everybody is free to collaborate
with its own added value or as well in a coordinated context. Projects are
intended to provide at the same time on-line "laboratories" for SA
technologies and free efficient implementations of the MPEG-4 SA toolset
in a possibly wider context.
The first Project will be based on SAINT. A new slightly improved (some bug
fixes) version 1.21 of the compiler will be distributed to those willing to
complete a very short free subscription. Successive releases will of course
be automatically distributed to SAOG subscribers. Needless to say that
participation to SAOG is free for any individual, research center or company.
Best regards to all,
Giorgio Zoia
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Giorgio ZOIA
Integrated Systems Laboratory - DE/LSI - EPFL
CH-1015 Lausanne - SWITZERLAND
Phone: + 41 21 693 69 79 E-mail: Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch
Fax: +41 21 693 46 63
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