[LAU] Social Media

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

 On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

> My 2¢: social media don't work for Linux Audio. I think the only thing that
> does work is good video tutorials, that's really big at the moment, good
> blogs and decent articles on authorative sites and in printed magazines.

I think you really want to expand your understanding of what social
media is. All of the above except printed magazines is part of it :)

> the other things are imho not useful. Twitter, Facebook, Google+ won't work,
> simply too much dispersion, people don't collaborate on these platforms,
> they only click on buttons and leave pointless comments.

That's quite an exxageration. I do some techsupport for Inkscape, GIMP
and Scribus via Twitter. It's actually useful for helping people solve
simple issues. That's not a direct marketing, but it helps preserving
user base. Of course, one could go beyond that.

> I call BS, with the band I convinced the others to ditch Cubase in favor of
> Qtractor because every rehearsal session we were totally lost again on how
> to record a simple track.

You mean you didn't know how to use Cubase? :)

> And what we really need is quality stuff, quality music, quality videos,
> quality live stuff. There is waaaaaaaay too little available at the moment
> while it is perfectly possible to create quality music with Linux. We need
> more Ken Restivo's, more Sebkha Chott's, more Louigi Verona's (and any other
> talent hanging around here that I might forget, sorry beforehand). We need a
> buzz, a technique, a workflow that yields something unique that makes people
> wonder how it was done, that makes people crave to reproduce that uniqueness
> so they can start destroying it again ;)

Completely agreed :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org