[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[rosea grammostola]

On 08/05/2011 02:46 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 01:35 PM, pshirkey at boosthardware.com wrote:
>>> 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.
> Assuming that all the docs will be placed at Linuxaudio.org ... It 
> might be good to stick with the same name.
>
> Account: twitter.com/LinuxAudio, hashtags #linuxaudio and/ or 
> #flossaudio  ?
>
> But how do you prevent that the RT account will be abused? Isn't it 
> possible to RT messages from accounts you follow yourself only?
>
http://twitter.com/#!/linuxaudio

Not sure how effective it will be...

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