[mythtv-users] [OT - Anyone else get one of these?] FWD: MythTV in FLOSS Media Center State of the Art paper (participation)

Dewey Smolka dsmolka at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 12:52:29 UTC 2008


Did anyone else get one of these? Does anyone know what this is about?
Is it kosher?


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From: Giovani Spagnolo <giovani at telematicsfreedom.org>
Date: Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:17 AM
Subject: MythTV in FLOSS Media Center State of the Art paper (participation)
To: dsmolka at gmail.com


Hello Dewey,

we are conducting a study on State of the Art of FLOSS Media Center
projects. I hope you could support it within the MythTV community.

Here's our announcement text if you could share with Myth community
(of course, you can change the text as appropriate)...

thank you for your consideration, giovani

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Hello,

The Telematics Freedom Foundation is conducting a study about the
state of the art in current Media Center projects in the FLOSS
community. We picked the 10 most prominent MC FLOSS projects out there
and we're now collecting information about their features,
functionality and support.

The 10 selected projects are: XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD,
Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex and
MediaPortal.

Because of our limited resources, we can't afford creating a Lab to
run and test all 10 media centers. So we are relying on the community
collective intelligence to gather all data necessary to provide you
with a panoramic view on state of the art work in FLOSS Media Center
projects.

There is one webform available for each project. The forms are very
easy to compile and we invite Project Leaders, Developers and Power
Users to actively participate, because you are capable to provide the
most accurate information we need.

So, what's the deal?

You can collaborate by:

Filling the MythTV Profile form:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pJJFyJNuvPdqhcCfMovL5ZQ
and/or
Sending any particular snapshots of your MC, links to demo videos or
web reviews to info (at) telematicsfreedom (dt) org

The benefits are:

you'll get for free a panoramic view on state of the art in all
prominent media center floss projects out there;
you'll be promoting your favorite Media Center and showing how strong
your community is;
if you contribute, you will have credits at the end of the paper, in
your project section;
the best snapshots may be selected to appear on the paper and
illustrate the project's UI

You can participate anonymously, but if you decide to leave your name
and email address you'll be given credit for your participation and
will receive an email notification of when the paper is available for
download (it will be free as in free speech and as in free beer :-)

Thank you for your consideration,
Giovani Spagnolo - organizer
Telematics Freedom Foundation
www.telematicsfreedom.org


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