5 Aug
2011
5 Aug
'11
2:05 p.m.
On 08/05/2011 10:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
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!
Aurélien
Centralization would be a good thing I think, information is now too
scattered. It would be very nice if there would be a single portal site
that would contain at least links to all the relevant information.
Only... this is a huge task I fear. And we'd need a good CMS for that
with a ditto good CSS template. And as Patrick pointed out regarding a
centralized account, it also needs a name, personally I think
LinuxAudio.org is the right place for such a site (if only because it's
a self-maintained site, so not hosted by a commercial hosting service).
I'm not very much in favor of widening the scope to all open source
audio related information, that would drastically increase the workload
for those maintaining such a site.
Best,
Jeremy