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It is no secret that I have a soft spot for free open source software (FOSS<\/a>) culture–I love its unfiltered access, educational\u00a0potential, fexibility and adaptability, and perhaps most importantly I love the ideology that offers a glimmer of hope towards a future where creativity trumps greed (even though at times\u00a0even FOSS culture fails to uphold this ambitious\u00a0goal). Yet, I am not a FOSS zealot. Rather, from a technological perspective I see myself as a pragmatist–with all things being equal, I will pick FOSS solution over a proprietary one, but that’s as far as my FOSS partiality goes.\u00a0Consequently, I have used and continue to use just about every mainstream operating system and the creative tools that make it unique. It is perhaps because of this pragmatic approach to open source that back in 2004 the Linux audio community picked me as the director of the international\u00a0Linuxaudio.org<\/a> consortium, a position I held since.<\/p>\n The key goal of the consortium is offering a convergence among the\u00a0audio and multimedia enthusiasts and the industry, a place where every voice can be heard. To meet this goal, I set out to consolidate online resources and offer a safe longitudinal platform for their\u00a0proliferation. Shortly after I joined\u00a0Virginia Tech<\/a>, I leveraged newfound partnerships and secured a high-bandwidth hosting solution at no cost to my department. Today, Linuxaudio.org<\/a> hosts a broad array of resources<\/a>\u00a0including\u00a0over half-dozen mailing lists, wiki and documentation, archives<\/a> from every\u00a0Linux Audio Conference since 2002, and the growing ecosystem\u00a0serves\u00a0over half a Terabyte of web traffic every month. Over the last decade Linuxaudio.org’s membership\u00a0has exceeded\u00a080 member projects<\/a> and companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is no secret that I have a soft spot for free open source software (FOSS) culture–I love its unfiltered access, educational\u00a0potential, fexibility and adaptability, and perhaps most importantly I love the ideology that offers a glimmer of hope towards a future where creativity trumps greed (even though at times\u00a0even FOSS culture fails to uphold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[69,66,67,68,65,64,75],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-portfolio","tag-69","tag-audio","tag-consortium","tag-international","tag-linux","tag-linuxaudio-org","tag-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ico.bukvic.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}