On 08/05/2011 01:18 PM, Harry van Haaren wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@gmail.com> wrote:
To become a veteran you have to become a newbie first. When we put LinuxMusicians.com on air, we got the same replies. But I think LinuxMusicians.com has proven to be a nice starting platform for newbies who explore the possibilities of Linuxaudio. For some it's a nice pre-step for the LAU mailinglist.

I think we could do both. Helping newbies and turning people into veteran linuxaudio guys. But both aims needs a different approach.

 True, and I'm all in for making the learning curve less steep, but rebranding things with names that are unassociated with them is IMO totally the wrong way to go.

Don't hit people getting intrested with all the terminology, only use words that they will probably understand, I get it. But calling it something that its not *just so people will like it* is plain silly IMO.

I am not saying that we should use words which does describe what it is in a wrong way... But that's not the case here imo.
A problem with the word OpenSource could make it harder to tweet about Harrison Mixbus for instance though :) And those pieces of software might be especially interesting for newbies...

Btw it wouldn't be a bad idea to also pay attention to OpenSource software on Windows and Mac imo (Audacity, LinuxSampler etc.)

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