> On 05.08.2011 11:17, pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> 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. > I could think of a "meta-page" which includes short descriptions of > linux audio programs along with screenshots and videos in a fancy > layout. And, what would be more important for me, informations about how > those applications can interact. > The other thing that is interesting for newbie is a recommendation for > hardware. Just recommend one or two device per category (usb, fw, pci..) > that are working well. > I would love such a page. And i don't speak about another forum here.. > - Sebastian > I wouldn't take much to add videos and screenshots to the apps.linuxaudio.org pages. modifying hte layout will take a bit more effort. Actually creating hte screenshots and videos is another thing altogether though. That requires a motivated individual or some commitment from devs to maintain their project pages on the apps wiki. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
