[QLab] I'm not a designer, but you are.

[Christopher Ashworth]

Hi all,

Here's an idea; tell me what you think:

I need some good demonstration workspaces.  I'll be giving a seminar  
at Yale in about two weeks, and it'd be nice to have some polished  
demos.  Something sexy that could help me show off QLab's features.

Moreover, I'd really like to have a few example workspaces available  
for download from the website to help teach both simple and advanced  
QLab concepts.

To a certain extent I can do this myself.  But I'm an engineer, not a  
sound or video designer.

What I'm wondering is whether you, gentle users, would have any  
appetite for a little contest.  Prizes would be in the form of  
licenses.  (Probably a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize, specifics to be  
decided.)  Terms would be that you'd submit one or more workspaces  
with no copyright restrictions--workspaces AND media files that I  
could distribute freely and without limitation, and use as demos in  
talks and presentations.  By submitting a workspace and its  
accompanying media files you would be assigning rights for unlimited  
use to Figure 53.

There are two basic categories of workspaces I'm interested in:

1) Flat-out sex appeal; anything goes as long as it's cool.   
Something good for, say, a booth or a presentation.

2) Cool plus educational;  starting with basic concepts and building  
up to advanced examples.  (e.g. a fade in, a cross-fade, a vamping  
loop, a 5 second window for a backup cue that automatically advances  
after the window is complete, and a variety of examples about how  
each pattern can be implemented.)  I'd provide a list of basic design  
patterns I'd want to be sure you covered, along with examples for  
some of the more advanced patterns of how they can be done.

Would there be any interest in this?  I want to be sure I'd actually  
get some entries before I put too much effort into it.  You'd have a  
little over a week to put together a submission.

Curiously,
Christopher