[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[rosea grammostola]

On 08/05/2011 12:57 PM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, rosea grammostola 
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com <mailto:rosea.grammostola at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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'...
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> 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.
To become a veteran you have to become a newbie first. When we put 
LinuxMusicians.com on air, we got the same replies. But I think 
LinuxMusicians.com has proven to be a nice starting platform for newbies 
who explore the possibilities of Linuxaudio. For some it's a nice 
pre-step for the LAU mailinglist.

I think we could do both. Helping newbies and turning people into 
veteran linuxaudio guys. But both aims needs a different approach.
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> 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.
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>     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'
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> 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?
Messages @linuxsound and LAA are not very well suited for 'newbies' 
imho. I would even avoid them on such a centralized twitter account.

\r

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