Re: News and announcements

From: Sjaak (tsteinz@dds.nl)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 17:31:32 EDT


Hi Eric...

Just wondering...how many people are on the user mailing list?
We sometimes feel a bit lonely ;-)

Regards, -- Tako Steinz
(www.saol.net)

Eric Scheirer wrote:

> Hi saol-dev and saol-users folks,
>
> Now that I'm out from under my thesis (see my personal home page
> if that interests you) I have some time to work on SA matters for
> a few weeks.
>
> 1. I've put together a hypermail archiving system to make it
> easier to read the archives of these mailing lists. Go to
> http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/saol-dev and
> http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/saol-users to see them.
> The saol-dev archive is broken out by year, since it has about
> three times the traffic of saol-users right now.
>
> 2. I am starting work on a SA corrigendum to fix problems in
> the standard. I will start with my own notes and the suggestions
> that have been provided by Robin Davies and John Lazzaro. Anyone
> who has more comments and suggestions for fixes in the paper
> standard should get them ready. Don't send them to me yet,
> though.
>
> 3. I am going to collect a set of SA bitstreams and textual SAOL
> orchestras to expand the conformance part of the standard. This
> will be an official collection of tests that developers can use
> to check compliance of their tools, and users can see examples
> of various kinds of SAOL code and functions. Again, anyone
> who has been making regression-test suites during their
> implementation process, or any musicians who would like to donate
> fancy SAOL code, should get it ready.
>
> 4. I'd like to completely redo the SA home page. Is there
> anyone who has web-design skills that would like to help?
>
> Best to all,
>
> -- Eric
>
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