[LAU] [LAD] Linux Audio 2012: Is Linux Audio moving forward?

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Thu, October 11, 2012 7:23 am, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>> What is missing is a concerted effort to advertise and promote the
>> advances that have been made. We can't rely on the magazine and
>> mainstream
>> news media publishers to do it for us as they are clearly not
>> interested.
>
> Are they not? Good gods, what ever happened to genuine interest and
> willingness to provide interesting reading? It's amazing SoS actually
> published anything all them years back.
>
> Oh wait, could it be that we simply have nothing of interest to them?
> Like, you know, "oh, we looked, but it seems like Linux audio isn't
> getting anywhere after all, but do let us know if you have anything
> worthwhile coming"? ;-)
>
> Or could it be that no one bothered to talk to the media in language
> that it understands?
>
> When did anybody last contact industry magazines and suggested to
> write a decent overview of e.g. MuseScore that seems to be doing so
> well lately, dontcherknow, with all the recent Bach hype and all...?
>
> When did anybody last told editors of any of those very magazines that
> he mixed and mastered a shitload of albums with A3 using latest
> linuxDSP and Calf plug-ins which coincidentally work so amazingly well
> and don't look like they were designed by a monkey on bad crack?
>
> How did it happen that http://audio.tutsplus.com/ republishes same
> tired "29 music-making apps for Linux" story over an over again
> instead of some new interesting coverage? Why do they still have
> "Create a Tutorial, Get Paid!" section on the website, and yet I can't
> recall a single tutorial on explaining the basics of creating pads
> with Yoshimi or suchlike?
>
> Because, you know, all I hear is that evil media is so very evil. And
> for some reason which I can't really explain it sounds a bagload of
> excuses to me.
>

People gave up on bothering years ago when they realised that it was a
pointless battle.





>> Marketing companies spend millions of client dollars on SEO and manage
>> to
>> get a lot done with just a few dedicated people. We have thousands of
>> users and each one of us can build a website or post links in forums and
>> social media to the landing pages that we want to promote. Our sites all
>> link up to each other anyway so it just needs some effort from people
>> around here to spread the links and evangelise the platform.
>
> Oh for god's sake. Inbound links are the past of search engines marketing.
>
> Besides, what is it exactly that you want to promote? :)
>

Linux as a platform for Multimedia production. Is that a problem?

>> Having some killer content won't go amiss either.
>
> I truly admire your priorities :)
>

If you have something better to offer put it on the table.



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd