[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[rosea grammostola]

On 08/05/2011 01:18 PM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, rosea grammostola 
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com <mailto: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.

I am not saying that we should use words which does describe what it is 
in a wrong way... But that's not the case here imo.
A problem with the word OpenSource could make it harder to tweet about 
Harrison Mixbus for instance though :) And those pieces of software 
might be especially interesting for newbies...

Btw it wouldn't be a bad idea to also pay attention to OpenSource 
software on Windows and Mac imo (Audacity, LinuxSampler etc.)

\r
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