KVR Audio

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:41 am

tuz wrote:i seriously doubt i will have time to do another one...i've been missing out on a lot at kvr. makes me really upset that i cannot spend any time here. i don't know where this will end. i'm just tired man.

Sounds like the beginning of the end

sunahura · Post by **sunahura** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:07 am

Without the DC Challenge Who will cuss out the sweetgirl vsts

tuz · Post by **tuz** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:17 am

Optomadic wrote:
tuz wrote:i seriously doubt i will have time to do another one...i've been missing out on a lot at kvr. makes me really upset that i cannot spend any time here. i don't know where this will end. i'm just tired man.
Sounds like the beginning of the end

no man. there are a lot of good people here who would be willing to take on the challenge. it's just that i probably won't be able to do it, which might be a very good thing actually. i messed up big time. (i'm going to work on the remedy tomorrow btw)

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:21 am

Let me know if I can help tuz -I might be able to pick up the next one for '08.

tuz · Post by **tuz** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:25 am

ouroboros wrote:Let me know if I can help tuz -I might be able to pick up the next one for '08.

thanks for the offer man.

i think ben will ultimately decide the future of it but in my opinion it should be a group of people who deal with it in the future. (one person for sponsorships, one person for developer communication, one person to manage uploads etc)

sunahura · Post by **sunahura** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:53 pm

We all mess up, the world don't stop, what kvr needs is a system, and if you doing something as important and time consuming as the DC, you should be compensated and so should kvr. O.K. who wants to see another plug in, well it's not that everything almost imaginable hasn't been done, but we as DEVS need to keep pushing the ideas of this audio stuff until it reaches utopia, you know like um "like the evolution of man 500 million years of trial and error, well we're still in error, but you get my point."

"Things are built because downfalls did not stop the work" Sunahura

mn · Post by mn » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:15 pm

I'm willing to help out for the next one.

kx77free · Post by **kx77free** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:22 am

Hi,

Perhaps we should simplify the DC or change it.

1- I'm not sure than all devs participate for the prize, it should be secondary.

I participate for the challenge to know the users, also to communicate etc... (sure if I had be the winner it was great for my ego...)
But my products already exist with or without the DC...

The prize it's great but one prize for 41 entries, where is the gain ?

We can create proportional prizes
eg: if the total is 2000$, we divide 2000 by the total of votes eg: 2000/4000 (I don't know the real number)=0.5$ per vote

If a dev has 450 votes, 450*0.5=225$
It's not fun for the winner but it's more fun for all.

2- or create sub challenges by category: Apple users, FX, Synth, Other, etc, with one person to manage it.

3- the upload and download space should be manage by each devs.

4- create a challenge with several web sites.

5- create a web site but linked with KVR.

I'm not sure that's help you but I like the DC and the KVR forum, it's really good for the freeware devs, etc...

Thanks for all you do, Tuz

Xavier

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:12 pm

the dc is one of the few ways freeware development gets publicity. music consumers around the world are still walking into music shops or going online only to be pointed toward commercial products. there are still people out there who don't realise that freeware exists in the prolific state it does.

if anyone has a better plan for getting attention for what is essentially a new paradigm, i'd like to hear about it.

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:21 pm

xoxos wrote:the dc is one of the few ways freeware development gets publicity. music consumers around the world are still walking into music shops or going online only to be pointed toward commercial products. there are still people out there who don't realise that freeware exists in the prolific state it does.

I couldn't agree more...

Acrobat · Post by **Acrobat** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:34 pm

Hi guys, hi kx77,
let me answer to your proposals, everybody should do that:

1- I'm not sure than all devs participate for the prize, it should be secondary.

I participate for the challenge to know the users, also to communicate etc... (sure if I had be the winner it was great for my ego...)
But my products already exist with or without the DC...

The prize it's great but one prize for 41 entries, where is the gain ?

We can create proportional prizes
eg: if the total is 2000$, we divide 2000 by the total of votes eg: 2000/4000 (I don't know the real number)=0.5$ per vote

If a dev has 450 votes, 450*0.5=225$
It's not fun for the winner but it's more fun for all.

It could be ok but maybe a mix of the old way and new way:
for example, prices for the first 10 instead of just the first..

2- or create sub challenges by category: Apple users, FX, Synth, Other, etc, with one person to manage it.

-1, I don't think it's necessary apart form platform (Win/Mac)

3- the upload and download space should be manage by each devs

.

+1!
this is pretty doable!

4- create a challenge with several web sites.
5- create a web site but linked with KVR.

-1
I don't think these are necessary, the KVR space is already good for the whole competition,
and the proper space since there's already all the people interested here, IMO

cheers,
Andrea

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:10 pm

if there is anything I can do

I'd be glad to help for the 08 DC

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:30 pm

Acrobat wrote: -1, I don't think it's necessary apart form platform (Win/Mac)

And Linux!

Maybe creating a category for Linux will spur Devs on as they know they've a much bigger chance of winning...

3- the upload and download space should be manage by each devs

.

That would be useful, take a load off the organiser. Unless what's being uploaded needs to be monitored, maybe tighter controls on updates this year (no new features just bugfixes!

)

4- create a challenge with several web sites.
5- create a web site but linked with KVR.
-1
I don't think these are necessary, the KVR space is already good for the whole competition,
and the proper space since there's already all the people interested here, IMO

Agreed, other sites will dilute the KVR focus.

jobromedia · Post by **jobromedia** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:32 am

Well I like the ideas so far, I'm up for the challange, but not up for maintaining the whole challange. That is way out of my scope as a dev.

As far as the prizes go I haven't seen my prize if I won anything last year. Not much intrest tho since I ended up as low as I did.

Optomadic · Post by **Optomadic** » Fri May 02, 2008 11:41 am

Why bother when we all know xoxo's is going to win

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