On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:23 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >> The alleged benefit for you, Nando, would be to cut your workload by a > >> significant amount. But that clearly isn't happening. > > > > Well, it _has_ happened, just not to the degree, or as fast as we > > expected it to happen. Part of it may be that there are more options now > > in terms of distributions and users have migrated over the years to > > other distros, and some of those may be audio apps packagers as well. > > Right. > > So this is a conversation that I'm having, in some form or another, all > across the Fedora universe. Step 1, for me, was to make sure that Fedora > functioned as an actual *community*. Mission accomplished, more or less. > So step 2 is basically marketing, and showing everybody how awesome Fedora > and Fedora-related projects can be. > > The absence of CCRMA from that survey that got passed around the > ccrma-list a coupld of months back really stuck in my craw, I must say. Hmmm, survey?? > But that's our fault, to some degree. > > So maybe the question is, how do we promote CCRMA? > > I think one way we promote it by noting who does the work. "Maintained by > professors at Stanford" has got to be a pretty big selling point. I'm not into marketing but that one does not quite excite me... :-) Maybe: "a system that works from people that use it", but then what do we do when the system does not work? Or "providing a working low latency sound and music environment since 2001", but then again sometimes things just don't work, see, I'm not good at marketing :-) > I know that a lot of people don't have much stomach for this kind of work, > but it's important, especially in community projects, to generate > excitement around excellent work. I guess the time comes when we have to turn on to marketing? Arghh... How much marketing have I done? One initial post to the cmdist mailing list at CCRMA in 2001 and then mostly word of mouth. Every once in a while the inevitable "which one is the best distro for audio and music" comes up in the linux audio lists and if no one suggests Planet CCRMA then I speak up (a little). More to say, but it is getting late (I'm right now in Berlin of all places, teaching for a few months at TU-Berlin's electronic music studio, just got here last Friday). Nighty night... -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedora-music-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list
