On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: > My 2¢: social media don't work for Linux Audio. I think the only thing that > does work is good video tutorials, that's really big at the moment, good > blogs and decent articles on authorative sites and in printed magazines. I think you really want to expand your understanding of what social media is. All of the above except printed magazines is part of it :) > the other things are imho not useful. Twitter, Facebook, Google+ won't work, > simply too much dispersion, people don't collaborate on these platforms, > they only click on buttons and leave pointless comments. That's quite an exxageration. I do some techsupport for Inkscape, GIMP and Scribus via Twitter. It's actually useful for helping people solve simple issues. That's not a direct marketing, but it helps preserving user base. Of course, one could go beyond that. > I call BS, with the band I convinced the others to ditch Cubase in favor of > Qtractor because every rehearsal session we were totally lost again on how > to record a simple track. You mean you didn't know how to use Cubase? :) > And what we really need is quality stuff, quality music, quality videos, > quality live stuff. There is waaaaaaaay too little available at the moment > while it is perfectly possible to create quality music with Linux. We need > more Ken Restivo's, more Sebkha Chott's, more Louigi Verona's (and any other > talent hanging around here that I might forget, sorry beforehand). We need a > buzz, a technique, a workflow that yields something unique that makes people > wonder how it was done, that makes people crave to reproduce that uniqueness > so they can start destroying it again ;) Completely agreed :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
