[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[pshirkey at boosthardware.com]

> 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...


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Patrick Shirkey
Boost HArdware Ltd