AGNULA - A GNU/Linux Audio Distribution Announcements

The AGNULA Team | 18 Jan 2006 12:32

Firenze Tecnologia stops funding AGNULA

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Florence, January 18th
Firenze Tecnologia   [0], the Italian    agency  that has  financially
sustained the  AGNULA   project since April 2003,    will not fund  it
anymore, because  of  the need  to reallocate  financial  resources on
other projects.
AGNULA is  now, to all practical extents  and  until further notice, a
fully volunteer-based project.
Best regards,
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"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
[0] http://www.firenzetecnologia.it
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The AGNULA Team | 15 Dec 2005 12:54

[ANN] A/Libre Muzik temporary shutdown

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Florence, December 15th

After careful investigations around the performance losses observed in
the past   weeks on the  AGNULA main  server, we   have identified the
problem in the A/Libre Muzik source code, specifically in the database
subsystem. With the  always increasing number  of users  and songs the
database  has grown in  size  and the machine  has  proven  itself not
capable of handling the load.

We  are  currently working both on  the  website code and the database
settings trying to eliminate  the problem, but  at the moment we can't
provide an estimation of how long it will take.

Because  of the overall impact  of this issue on   the server load, we
decided  to temporarily   shut down  the A/Libre  Muzik   site, to not
penalize other users and services hosted on that AGNULA server.

Of  course none of the  pieces in the database  will  be lost, and the

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The AGNULA Team | 22 Oct 2005 18:33

[ANN] Possible downtime of the main AGNULA server

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Florence, Fri 22th October

Due to some performance  losses observed in  the past few weeks on the
AGNULA main server, some core  packages on the  system are going to be
upgraded. According to the upgrade tests  run on a sandbox machine, no
downtime  should be   needed, but   some service discontinuities   are
possible.

The upgrade is scheduled on 24th of October 2005 at 13.00 UTC.

Best regards,

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The AGNULA Team                            info at agnula.org
Our mailing lists:                         http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site:                              http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"

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Andrea Glorioso | 26 Sep 2005 11:12

On AGNULA Libre Music, copyright, unauthorized distribution and other stuff

                                                  Florence, 2005/09/26

Dear all,

as you all know, the purpose of AGNULA Libre  Music has always been to
«  create a  publicly accessible  database of  Libre Music, i.e. works
which have been put  *by their authors*  under a license  which allows
free redistribution and usage » (emphasis added).

The  will of the  legitimate   rightsholder(s) (whether they are   the
original authors or not) to authorize the  redistribution and usage of
their works is the basis on which Free Software, Creative Commons, and
other endeavours, which try to propose "alternative" forms to regulate
knowledge, build upon.

Please let us repeat this concept: without the proper authorization of
the legitimate rightsholder(s), you do not have Free Software.  You do
not have  Creative Commons.  You  have something else, which you might
call "piracy" if you feel  so inclined,  or "unauthorized copying  and
distribution" if you happen to prefer less emotionally loaded terms.

Lately, people  have uploaded on AGNULA Libre  Music  some works which
very  plausibly  they  do not   have  the  right  of  reproduction and
distribution on.

This is bad, for several reasons.

The first and most important one is that  if this behaviour continues,
we will most probably be forced to  shut down AGNULA  Libre Music.  We
do not  have  the  resources  nor   the  inclination   to set  up   an

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Andrea Glorioso | 27 Jul 2005 22:56

Press Release: OPEN SOURCE CREATIVITY IN BRISTOL, UK - 20TH AUGUST

Dear all,

the    AGNULA  project  is very    happy    to forward  the  following
announcement:

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(27/7/2005, Bristol,  England) FAVE is a new  event for people who are
interested  in free  and open source   creative software on Linux  and
other  computer platforms. It's  taking place on  Saturday August 20th
2005  at the Trinity Community &  Arts Centre in Bristol, UK. Everyone
is  welcome,  even  if they have  never  used   this kind  of software
before. Doors open at 10am and the  event gets underway at 11am. Music
will continue  into the evening, and the  whole event costs just £5 to
get in.

This is no dry, dull conference! It will  be an accessible festival of
fun with performances,    presentations  and workshops.   Topics  will
include   music  production,   recording  and   do-it-yourself    film
making.  There will be  sessions  covering community media,  streaming
content servers,    tangible interfaces, digital   TV  regulation  and
Creative  Commons licensing. Networking,   internet  access and  media
streaming will be provided by Bristol Wireless.

Speakers at FAVE 2005 include:

  James Wallbank - Art for all at Access Space

  Tom Chance - Remix Reading and the Creative Commons

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The AGNULA Team | 7 Jul 2005 20:45

[ANN] A/DeMuDi 1.2.1 is out

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Florence, 07/07/2005

+++ AGNULA/DEMUDI 1.2.1 IS OUT

AGNULA/DeMuDI   1.2.1,  the Debian-based  GNU/Linux   distribution for
audio, has been released.

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AGNULA/DeMuDI 1.2.1,  the   Debian-based GNU/Linux   distribution  for
audio and music, has been released.

This release is the second of the 1.2.x series , and sports a complete
integration with Debian, using the  Sarge Debian Installer and the CDD
(Custom Debian Distributions) concept. [0]

Instructions on how to download and install it can be found here:

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The AGNULA Project | 16 May 2005 16:53

AGNULA seminar at Bocconi University

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Florence, 16 May 2005

+++ AGNULA seminar at Bocconi University

On  May  19, 2005 Andrea  Glorioso, former   technical  manager of the
AGNULA project and currently  employed   as technical coordinator   of
Media Innovation  Unit - Firenze  Tecnologia, will  hold a  seminar at
Bocconi  University (Milan,   Italy), during the  course    on "Law of
non-material goods".  The seminar will  focus on the AGNULA/DeMuDi and
the AGNULA Libre Music projects, with specific  reference to its legal
and social implications for creators.

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Andrea  Glorioso, former technical manager of   the AGNULA project and
currently employed as technical coordinator of Media Innovation Unit -
Firenze Tecnologia, will hold  a seminar at Bocconi University (Milan,
Italy -  http://www.uni-bocconi.it/),  during the  course on  "Law  of

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The AGNULA Project | 4 May 2005 12:31

AGNULA Libre Music at (L)eft Meeting, Bologna, Italy

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Florence, 04 May 2005

+++ AGNULA Libre Music at (L)eft Meeting, Bologna, Italy

The AGNULA  project will attend the (L)eft  Meeting,  a two-days event
that will take place in  Bologna, Italy on May 7  and 8, 2005.  During
the meeting Andrea Glorioso will talk about the AGNULA Libre Music web
portal, its history, goals and the next steps.

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The AGNULA project will attend the (L)eft Meeting, a two-days event
that will take place in Bologna, Italy on May 7 and 8, 2005.

The meeting has   been organized  by  a  large number  of   musicians,
composers, music  labels, media  activitists  in order to  discuss the
"new"  alternative to traditional  copyright for  music production and
dissemination, as well as  to  let the  general public know  about the

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The AGNULA Project | 30 Apr 2005 14:10

Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings link has changed

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Florence, 30 April 2005

+++ Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings link has changed

The link to the LAC2005 conference proceedings posted in the previous 
announce  has been changed. The correct link is:

  http://lac.zkm.de/2005/proceedings.shtml

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About  AGNULA:  Agnula (acronym  for   A GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced  with a strong  g)  is the name  of  a project funded until
April   2004 by  the  European    Commission  (number of     contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass).  After the end  of the funded  period, AGNULA is continuing its
work, aiming to spread Libre Software  in the professional audio/video
arena.

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The AGNULA Project | 28 Apr 2005 15:42

Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings are available

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Florence, 28 April 2005

+++ Linux Audio Conference 2005 proceedings are available

The proceedings for the 2005   edition of the Linux Audio  Conference,
held  at ZKM  in Karlsruhe from  April 21  to April 24,  2005, are now
available online.  Among the many excellent papers that were presented
during what is  by now the most  famous conference of the Linux  Audio
scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in.

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The proceedings for the 2005   edition of the Linux Audio  Conference,
held  at ZKM  in Karlsruhe from  April 21  to April 24,  2005, are now
available online.  Among the many excellent papers that were presented
during what is  by now the most  famous conference of the Linux  Audio
scene, the AGNULA team manage to squeeze two contributions in.

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The AGNULA Project | 28 Apr 2005 15:26

Main AGNULA host back online after attack

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Florence, 28 April 2005

+++ Main AGNULA host back online after attack

After the attack (and potential compromise)  that the AGNULA main host
(agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered  from in  the past  days  [0], we  are
happy  to announce that we concluded  the reinstallation process.  All
the services provided by  the host have been restored  and are, to the
best of our knowledge, fully functional.

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After the attack (and potential compromise)  that the AGNULA main host
(agnula.speech.kth.se) suffered  from in  the past  days  [0], we  are
happy  to announce that we concluded  the reinstallation process.  All
the services provided by  the host have been restored  and are, to the
best of our knowledge, fully functional.

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