[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[Harry van Haaren]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, rosea grammostola <
rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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.
>

 True, and I'm all in for making the learning curve less steep, but
rebranding things with names that are unassociated with them is IMO totally
the wrong way to go.

Don't hit people getting intrested with all the terminology, only use words
that they will probably understand, I get it. But calling it something that
its not *just so people will like it* is plain silly IMO.


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Dale Powell <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:

> As the OS in FLOSS stands for Open Source it's hardly a rebranding though
> is it? Why force people who may have never heard of it to search the
> internet to find out what an acronym stands for when there is a nicer on the
> eyes, ears and minds term that sums it up pretty much as well?
>

In that instance I'd have no problem, as you pointed out its not
*rebranding*, its making it easier to access for beginners and I'm all up
for that.
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