> On 04.08.2011 21:39, Aurélien Leblond wrote: >> 2. More interrestingly, the "appeal to famous artists" didn't seem to >> be well received... What seems to come out though is that although the >> FOSS community seems to be good to produce software, we don't seem to >> be good at advertising it :) >> - Ardour has...49 followers on facebook... Nothing on the wall... >> - Hydrogen...94...and one entry on the wall... >> - Couldn't find a # tag for any of these on Twitter... >> > Hi Aurélien, > > as a developer of hydrogen let me chime in here.. I think it could be a > good idea > to think a little bit about the "marketing" of our applications. At the > moment > the presentation of hydrogen is more or less restricted to our homepage > and our mailing lists. > I've posted rarely to a facebook group (i think you didn't find it), but > that was all. It's hard and cumbersome to use all channels at once > (twitter, google+, etc...) if all you want to do is publish a release > notification or something like this.. >> I know I know, we are not advertisers, we are developers! >> But what if a small group of us (and yeah, including me :)) would do >> that? > Do you have any specific ideas there? Maybe a "linux audio booth" at > fairs would be a nice idea as a joined project. I had this idea earlier > for hydrogen, but it is very hard for one small project to organize (and > pay for) such an event. > - Sebastian That is happening to a small degree. But we don't have a package we cn roll out if the opportunity arises. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
