> On 08/05/2011 02:46 PM, rosea grammostola wrote: >> On 08/05/2011 01:35 PM, pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> On 08/05/2011 12:59 PM, pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>>>> 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... >>>> It's *social* media. That means it works when you interact with >>>> people. >>> Unless you only intend to interact with the same people who are on this >>> list we are going to need to get some more attention. One way to >>> achieve >>> that is to have automated tweets so people can keep up to date and >>> trend a >>> topic that catches their attention. >>> >>> >>>> A centralised meta landing page server, might be a good example what >>>> doesn't work. It's technically great, but socially very bad. :) >>> Sorry. A centralised location to access all the content that we are >>> producing is a bad thing? >>> >>> >>>> Of course we could do that for such a account, but then social >>>> interaction should be done by project accounts (like MuseScore is >>>> doing >>>> nicely). >>>> >>> The social interaction will come when people start commenting on the >>> news. >>> We need to feed people news and automating the news from the already >>> existing locations where people are posting is a handy tool. >>> >>> Once we get people to notice the already existing content that we are >>> posting then we will get more social interaction. >> Assuming that all the docs will be placed at Linuxaudio.org ... It >> might be good to stick with the same name. >> >> Account: twitter.com/LinuxAudio, hashtags #linuxaudio and/ or >> #flossaudio ? >> >> But how do you prevent that the RT account will be abused? Isn't it >> possible to RT messages from accounts you follow yourself only? >> > http://twitter.com/#!/linuxaudio > > Not sure how effective it will be... > Nice. I have updated http://lau.linuxaudio.org with some of the ideas from this discussion so far. I'll need a few days or some contributions to get the live streams kicking in. Anyway lots of good ideas so far. Lets not loose momentum. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
