>>I'm thinking we can do something even more complete than the planet >> feeds. >>Definitely automated updates on content will be a big part of it though. > > Is that really what we want though? Automatic feeds? > > When I started to use Linux few years back to produce music, what I > wanted to know is: what software to use, what can they do, few > audio/video examples to judge by myself if that was what I was looking > for. > > I stumbled accross a few of these automatic generated feeds, and to be > honest they didn't tell me much. > > Shouldn't we start by deciding the audience we want to reach? > We don't really want to "advertise" to the advanced users, they > already know where to look. > And I'm afraid the "newbe" would be overwhelmed by an automatic feed. > > What I had in mind was this: > - A single campaign on facebook/twitter/google+ around the major > actors of FOSS music software (like Ardour, LMMS, Hydrogen, etc...) > - A simple message > - And see how that goes to repeat the experience (or not!) > For a social media campaign to get any momentum we will need to have a nice landing page for people to view the message and tweet/post to make it trend. We will also need to have a way to get people on board with a campaign. I think the prize draw option will work quite well. Tweet this hashtag and win a new xxxx from xxxx is a pretty good way of advertising products. > I still agree that we should centralize the action though! > There is a lot that can be done to better present the content that we already produce on a daily basis. We have the following at our disposal: linux-audio-announce http://planet.linuxaudio.org facebook - linux audio group We also have these locations for media soundcloud ccmixter bandcamp myspace youtube http://linuxmusicvideos.com There are also a few forums that we can pull content from: I can't remember all of them. http://linuxmao.org http://linuxmusicians.com We have radio feeds Need some help to remember them all here please. http://radio.linuxaudio.org And there are various sites dedicated to documentation http://apps.linuxaudio.org http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org http://www.linuxjournal.com/users/dave-phillips We even have a google news feed http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&jfkl=true&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&csid=7761883e5c5cb9b3&ict=ln Pulling all that content alone into one single landing page will make a good start for people who are new or experienced. I can see a few ways to present it. One important consideration will be to make sure that it is easy to add new links, feeds and sections. The other is that is is easy to navigate and read. A third is that it works across all platforms. It could even become a flibboard style meta journal in html5. The official http://journal.linuxaudio.org perhaps? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
