Re: [Consortium] Sounds Expo TODO list?

On Monday 02 February 2004 09:37, Chris Cannam wrote: Hmm, I'd say a no to both of those. Firstly everyone knows how to use Google and people don't actually type in links anymore, do they? Secondly, why undo all the good "it's not just for geeks" image by promoting the geek side of it all? Geeks will know where to look and how to help out - if they don't then they're not very good geeks. I do think there should be a more in depth flier perhaps outlining some core apps in more detail (and lifting a few quotes from websites) and also perhaps adumbrating an example setup - piece for piece - against a (say) Windows setup. So you could have a tick list of things to do to get you up and running with a Linux Audio system. If I was a musician or music tech looking to move over to Linux I'd want to see a list of concrete reasons why I should be moving and examples of how I can achieve this. To know it can be done is enough - that's why Ron's (and others) setup is of so much interest to people. Whatever though - I have already nailed my up my colours as a firm believer in Linux Audio as a viable commercial platform (at some point or other, on some scale or other) so I do tend to veer onto the hopelessly salesmanny pitch. I think it's worth shouting about in a commercial sense mainly because that is the language that people understand - if you say it's cool and it's free people tend to mistrust it. "What's the catch? You must have to be a brain surgeon to fly it." An even more paranoid point along the same lines is that if our stand is popular then other firms (who've paid full price for their stands) may be keen to point out any flaw in our arguments to keep people wary of Linux Audio. I'm mainly playing devil's advocate here of course. R