On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:05:32 +0200 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Centralization would be a good thing I think, information is now too > scattered. It would be very nice if there would be a single portal > site that would contain at least links to all the relevant > information. Only... this is a huge task I fear. And we'd need a good > CMS for that with a ditto good CSS template. And as Patrick pointed > out regarding a centralized account, it also needs a name, personally > I think LinuxAudio.org is the right place for such a site (if only > because it's a self-maintained site, so not hosted by a commercial > hosting service). I'm not very much in favor of widening the scope to > all open source audio related information, that would drastically > increase the workload for those maintaining such a site. > I think this is a good point - for this whole thing to not become too disperse and hard to maintain by a few persons in their spare time, it has to be very focused. If the intent is to pubblicize and help migration of audio users to linux systems, I think the focus should be kept on few bigger applications - ardour, hydrogen and then some else - that provide a basic, solid, all round setup for a new user. A working setup should be provided/documented very well for those - then if someone wants to experiment more, he'll find by himself seq24 and ams - for example. Also this would maybe help the ethical issue of rebranding that Harry is posing (if I understood it right) - rebranding and pubblicization efforts would only be spent on the bigger apps, while smaller ones which have a small team of devs (or just one in many cases) wouldn't be burdened by this, while still having the benefits of a larger user base. my 2¢ ;) renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
