Re: [LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

On 08/05/2011 12:59 PM, pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com wrote: >> On 08/05/2011 10:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote: >>>> 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!) >>> >>> I still agree that we should centralize the action though! >>> >>> >> If only the project Ardour would manage to become active and known >> on >> social media (twitter, youtube channel), then you are almost there. >> Other projects are too small likely to get much attention. A chance >> might be to have a centralized account for such small projects. >> > This is the right idea. > >> I am not a marketing expert, but words like 'Linux', 'FLOSS' might >> be >> frightening people. 'Opensource', 'Ardour' and 'Ubuntu' (and >> probably >> Creative Commons) are words which lay much better in 'the market'... >> >> Possible names for a centralized account: >> >> OpenSourceAudio >> OpenSourceMusic >> OpenSourceMusicians >> Linuxaudio >> Linuxaudio.org >> LinuxMusicians >> Linuxmusicians.com >> >> A account @twitter& @Identica to start with? >> >> The guys from LMMS for example (as other projects), could mention >> that >> account when posting a message. >> >> 'LMMS 0.9 is out! Grab it at http://lmms.org #lmms #opensourceaudio >> @opensourceaudio' >> >> This message can then be retweeted by the centralized account. >> > If you set up the account I can setup the retweet on the centralised > meta > landing page server... It's *social* media. That means it works when you interact with people.

A centralised meta landing page server, might be a good example what doesn't work. It's technically great, but socially very bad. :)

Of course we could do that for such a account, but then social interaction should be done by project accounts (like MuseScore is doing nicely).