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It was recently brought to our attention that Ardroid, a remote control app for Ardour, no longer appears to be available at Google's play store. All is not lost however. If you haven't heard of F-Droid, maybe it's now time to check it out. F-Droid is an alternative software repository for your Android device that contains FLOSS software.

OpenAV have just released a statement announcing the end of the OpenAV Release System.

The idea of this system was that source code for OpenAV projects would be released 12 months after their announcement with donations bringing forward release dates 1 month at a time.

The full statement can be read on the OpenAV website. The accompanying video is below.

Things have been moving along for the Guitarix project lately. First of all, they have redesigned their website and forum. Also, their website now has a new domain at guitarix.org, while the source code is still hosted at sourceforge.

Thanks to Rui Nuno Capela and his trusty camera, you can now check out photos from this year's Linux Audio Conference. You will find the photo gallery over at rncbc.org

He has also uploaded videos of LAC's Linux Sound Night. You can check out these videos on Rui's youtube account.

This years Linux Audio Conference kicks off today in Mainz, Germany. You can check out the schedule on the LAC2015 website.

During the conference, live A/V streams are available for the main track: High Quality and Low Bandwidth

This years Linux Audio Conference will be getting underway in just under two weeks time. The conference runs from April 9th to 12th and will be taking place in Mainz, Germany.

You can now check out the program for the conference over at the LAC website. Don't forget, if you have any questions, you can hop onto the the LAC2015 IRC channel.

Andrés Pérez López is planning a workshop in Barcelona promoting free and open source software for making music. It will also feature some material published here on Libre Music Production. The workshop is planned to take place in CC Convent de Sant Agustí from 22nd April to 20th May. The program for the workshop is as follows -

Update your bookmarks! In case you haven't noticed, the AV Linux forums have recently been moved. You can now find the forums at - http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/forums/index.php

The Linux Audio Conference submissions deadline has been extended for another week! The new deadline is Sunday, Feb 8th, 2015 (23:59 HAST) This is the new deadline for all submission types: papers, music, installations, workshop proposals.

So, if you were considering to submit a paper but couldn't make up your mind yet, here is your chance to become active! Never forget that this conference lives through the people participating in it.

Glen MacArthur has just posted some interesting and exciting news about the future of AV Linux. The biggest news is that work has begun on a new development base providing both 64bit and 32bit architectures which will be based on a rolling Debian Testing distribution base.