I'm
thinking we can do something even more complete than the planet
feeds.
Definitely automated updates on content will be a big part of it though.
Is that really what we want though? Automatic feeds?
When I started to use Linux few years back to produce music, what I
wanted to know is: what software to use, what can they do, few
audio/video examples to judge by myself if that was what I was looking
for.
I stumbled accross a few of these automatic generated feeds, and to be
honest they didn't tell me much.
Shouldn't we start by deciding the audience we want to reach?
We don't really want to "advertise" to the advanced users, they
already know where to look.
And I'm afraid the "newbe" would be overwhelmed by an automatic feed.
What I had in mind was this:
- A single campaign on facebook/twitter/google+ around the major
actors of FOSS music software (like Ardour, LMMS, Hydrogen, etc...)
- A simple message
- And see how that goes to repeat the experience (or not!)
For a social media campaign to get any momentum we will need to have a
nice landing page for people to view the message and tweet/post to make it
trend.
We will also need to have a way to get people on board with a campaign. I
think the prize draw option will work quite well. Tweet this hashtag and
win a new xxxx from xxxx is a pretty good way of advertising products.
I still agree that we should centralize the action
though!
There is a lot that can be done to better present the content that we
already produce on a daily basis.
We have the following at our disposal:
linux-audio-announce
http://planet.linuxaudio.org
facebook - linux audio group
We also have these locations for media
soundcloud
ccmixter
bandcamp
myspace
youtube
http://linuxmusicvideos.com
There are also a few forums that we can pull content from:
I can't remember all of them.
http://linuxmao.org
http://linuxmusicians.com
We have radio feeds
Need some help to remember them all here please.
http://radio.linuxaudio.org
And there are various sites dedicated to documentation
http://apps.linuxaudio.org
http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org
http://www.linuxjournal.com/users/dave-phillips
We even have a google news feed
http://news.google.com/news/section?pz=1&jfkl=true&cf=all&ned=u…
Pulling all that content alone into one single landing page will make a
good start for people who are new or experienced.
I can see a few ways to present it. One important consideration will be to
make sure that it is easy to add new links, feeds and sections. The other
is that is is easy to navigate and read. A third is that it works across
all platforms. It could even become a flibboard style meta journal in
html5.
The official
http://journal.linuxaudio.org perhaps?
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd