6 Aug
2011
6 Aug
'11
7:09 a.m.
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
My 2ยข: 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