[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[pshirkey at boosthardware.com]

> On 08/05/2011 12:59 PM, pshirkey at boosthardware.com wrote:
>>> 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...
> It's *social* media. That means it works when you interact with people.

Unless you only intend to interact with the same people who are on this
list we are going to need to get some more attention. One way to achieve
that is to have automated tweets so people can keep up to date and trend a
topic that catches their attention.


> A centralised meta landing page server, might be a good example what
> doesn't work. It's technically great, but socially very bad. :)

Sorry. A centralised location to access all the content that we are
producing is a bad thing?


>
> Of course we could do that for such a account, but then social
> interaction should be done by project accounts (like MuseScore is doing
> nicely).
>

The social interaction will come when people start commenting on the news.
We need to feed people news and automating the news from the already
existing locations where people are posting is a handy tool.

Once we get people to notice the already existing content that we are
posting then we will get more social interaction.

--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd