I attended the Columbia Area Lunix User Group (CALUG) meeting this evening. CALUG is an informal group that meets once a month to discuss things Linux. Attending these meetings requires some planning, as I must drive to the Halethorpe station and park there, staging my car for the trip to the evening meeting. Travel to the meeting will be easier when the Light Rail "Yellow" line is extended from BWI to Columbia. That branch will run right past the Tenable offices, where the group holds its meetings.
Today's speaker was Daniel T. Chen, a contributor to the Ubuntu sound project. He explained quite a bit, and gave us a good understanding of the challenges of the sound project. The team must deal with various hardware (some of it not easily identified or distinguished from similar hardware) and an epidemic of software.
The Ubuntu team has selected a subset of software, simplifying the task. It seems a reasonable approach, although some folks will be upset that their pet project or favorite sound processor is omitted.
After the meetings, I chatted with a few folks. We talked about calendars, compilers, and file formats.
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