[PD-dev] irc dev meeting september 30th

[Mathieu Bouchard]

irc dev meeting september 30th

i'm calling this meeting on the occasion of the first anniversary of the 
pd convention graz. an appropriate topic would be: what has changed in the 
last year of puredata ?

i'm also calling this meeting because everybody thinks i should be calling 
the meetings even though i think that my IRC channel is open for anything 
sufficiently on-topic, and you bet pd is on-topic in the pd channel.

i'm also, also calling this meeting because there are some important 
issues left to be discussed:

 * what would be a good threading model for devel_0_39 ? We need an
   overall design that takes care of loading soundfiles, callback dsp,
   GUI updates, etc., in a realtime ("click-free") way, and in a 
   consistent way, that is open for further uses.

 * how should we make devel_0_39 work in 64-bit mode?

 * can our use of SIMD (SSE+Altivec) be extended to more code in a way
   that causes further outrageous speed advantages over plain pd ?

 * how can we ensure the devel branch gets distributed to end users ?

 * how can we make external language support more consistent with each
   other and more supported at the level of pd itself? (The current 
   languages for writing externals are: C, C++, Python, Ruby, Scheme, 
   Tcl, Java, and possibly untold others.)

 * what is needed for PureData to be chosen over Max/MSP in universities ?



So everyone is invited to irc.freenode.net #dataflow on 2005.09.30 at UTC
16.00 for the sixth (?) or maybe seventh (?) of our n-monthly
bring-your-own-brain events.

(Everyone also is invited to irc.freenode.net #dataflow all of the time,
too. We think we're a funny bunch. Sometimes we might even be productive.)

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Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju
Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada