On 02/16/2010 06:45 PM, Nelson Marques wrote: > > > To keep a community alive, I would recon we will need more than this. I > would add the possibility of having micro-blogging functionanility > attached to this gallery. Interaction will be a key feature in keeping > the community alive and recruiting new people, besides keeping a high > interest degree from those already involved. We in Fedora use identi.ca for micro-blogging, but this way is not very effective: being spread all around the world is not easy easy to have communication in real-time. When we need real-time communication, we prefer IRC, having 2 channels: #fedora-art about creating art *with* Fedora and #fedora-design for creating art *for* Fedora. > I do agree, but tools aren't just enough. There should also be present a > strong human bound and at some point an environment of cumplicity > amongst our users. The most important part in my experience is getting *good* feedback from your colleagues. > Being a student myself, I've been developing works for school that aim > real life situations. I would eventually point to a campaign that aims > to target art students through schools. > About deviantart, they provide sales services (and I do "gear up" my > desktop on DeviantART). We shouldn't probably take such approach, but > the functionality (non-commercial) should be something that we can take > as a good example. I never used the commercial part of deviantART, but I acknowledge its interface and community. > If you look at http://art.gnome.org, it's been dead for quite some time, > and it's way smaller than Deviant Art. So there's a good example that > just a small gallery isn't enough. We need more... As an artist, what > would you consider important to have to build a community and keep them > interested everyday ? I submitted a few works to art.gnome.org and didn't like it: the proces was not direct, everything was going trough a human who processed and posted the submissions. The community was small, and you had little feedback and small exposure. -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
