> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, rosea grammostola < > rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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'... >> > > I cannot begin to describe how much I disagree with "rebranding" what is > being done to make it go big. Sure "open source" is a nice term, and > "create > commons" is too, but one should stand with what it is that your *actually > doing*, and dimming it down for people getting into the scene is not going > to improve the situation in the long run. Turning them into a veteran > linux > audio guys: that's a better goal. > If we are going to go to the effort of setting up a campaign we should be prepared to attack every marketing vector to get the best metrics. Using more widely accessible and optimised language increases the chances of being picked up by a larger cross section of the internet. It also increase SEO by having more keywords pointing our way. > Restating: I disagree with the idea of "marketing" names for what we do. > People will be draw to the comunity *because* of what we do, not because > of > *how we brand* what we do. > > 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' >> > > That's not a bad idea. And its being done already to some degree, > check @linuxsound, > it posts links to all LAU mails. If we done the same for the LAA list, > that > might suffice for the "Grab it here" style messages? Was this feed ever announced on laa ? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
