[LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

[pshirkey at boosthardware.com]

> 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...
>


Nice.

I have updated http://lau.linuxaudio.org with some of the ideas from this
discussion so far.

I'll need a few days or some contributions to get the live streams kicking
in. Anyway lots of good ideas so far.

Lets not loose momentum.



--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd