UTOSC Starting
Well I'm sitting here listening to Matt Asay speak about Open Source in Utah and how it can really get a hold here. Bruce Perens will be up next and the Utah Open Source Conference is looking very good.
I'm still doing a Django presentation, and am looking to throwing a BOF together.
Also, there is a GPG key-signing party with teh conference that I'll be hosting.
All in all, it looks like a good weekend.
UTOSC GPG Keysigning Events
At UTOSC there will be two GPG Keysigning events. One will be tonight, but the large one will be tomorrow night during the BOF time. If you want to participate I need your information: the output of gpg --fingerprint youremail@address.com. Send that to gpg@scottr.org and I'll add you to the list. Remember to read the instructions and come prepared for the event.
Christer Edwards — Building Community
So Christer gave an interesting presentation here at UTOSC on building community. For those who don't know, Christer is the founder of the Ubuntu Utah team and co-founder of the US teams. I remember a few years ago when he showed up on the scene and starting the Utah team. The LoCo (Local Communtiy) groups in the US have exploding in the past year, and Christer headed up a large amount of it.
So in his presentation he talked about why Ubuntu has become such a big deal in the Linux world. He attributed it to community. He talked about how community is people. All the great Open Source projects have been community focused. The other distributions that are attached to commercial projects have a focus in the end on the bottom line. They're doing things that will help them, and then they think about the community. Ubuntu ...
Making iPhone Ringtones
Update: Works with firmware 1.1.2 Update: No longer works with firmware 1.1.1
So with the announcement of non-hacked ringtone support, I set out to get me a ringtone. The problem: I don't have much purchased iTunes music. Most of my music I've ripped myself to FLAC and converted to MP3 with Oggify. So iTunes won't let me make ringtones from those. A bummer, because their editor looked pretty slick.
Instead I've come up with my own method for making ringtones, taking advantage of Open Sources apps.
- Use Audactiy to trim out 30 seconds from a FLAC file. Add space at the end if desired.
- Export out to WAVE.
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Use afconvert (in
/Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/Services/AudioFileTools, you'll need to build it yourself). -
afconvert -f m4af -d 'aac ' -b 192000 [file-name] - Edit the tags as needed.
- Use MakeiPhoneRingtone to load it into ...
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