Debian Multimedia Blend

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:59:57PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
>Hi Andreas!
>
>nice to see you keep pushing Debian Blends :)
>
>|--==> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:01:10 +0200, Andreas Tille 
>|--==> <andreas at an3as.eu> said:
>
>  AT> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:50:16AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>  >>As seen on the documentation, there is already a DeMuDi blend. 
>  >>Maybe we can start from there? DeMuDi people were part one of the 2 
>  >>teams that merged into this one (d-multimedia at lists.debian.org).
>
>  AT> Thanks for reminding me that the doc is a bit outdated.  The 
>  AT> DeMuDi Blend idea is quite old and Free was involved into this 
>  AT> topic but as far as I know there is no existing technicla 
>  AT> implementation.  I should fix this in the doc (but perhaps I weit 
>  AT> with fixing until the discussion here proceeds to some point).
>
>Yes, the DeMuDi idea is quite old and eventually evolved in the 64
>Studio project, which is more a Debian remix/customization than an
>official Debian Blend. At some point there was an AGNULA/DeMuDi
>implementation too, but not 100% Debian either. I still like the name
>"DeMuDi", so if it could be incarnated in some new Blend-based project
>it would be great :) However I have not enough time to push for that, so
>if nothing new comes in, feel free to remove it from the docs.

I like the DeMuDi name too, and see no reason not to keep the name for 
(some parts of) Blending work in this team.

I was not around, however, when deciding on a unified name for this 
team, so please enlighten me if this is rehashing some old discussion 
that perhaps is better avoided. :-)


  - Jonas

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