> On 08/05/2011 10:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond 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!) >> >> I still agree that we should centralize the action though! >> >> > If only the project Ardour would manage to become active and known on > social media (twitter, youtube channel), then you are almost there. > Other projects are too small likely to get much attention. A chance > might be to have a centralized account for such small projects. > This is the right idea. > I am not a marketing expert, but words like 'Linux', 'FLOSS' might be > frightening people. 'Opensource', 'Ardour' and 'Ubuntu' (and probably > Creative Commons) are words which lay much better in 'the market'... > > Possible names for a centralized account: > > OpenSourceAudio > OpenSourceMusic > OpenSourceMusicians > Linuxaudio > Linuxaudio.org > LinuxMusicians > Linuxmusicians.com > > A account @twitter & @Identica to start with? > > The guys from LMMS for example (as other projects), could mention that > account when posting a message. > > 'LMMS 0.9 is out! Grab it at http://lmms.org #lmms #opensourceaudio > @opensourceaudio' > > This message can then be retweeted by the centralized account. > If you set up the account I can setup the retweet on the centralised meta landing page server... -- Patrick Shirkey Boost HArdware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
