Re: [LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

From: <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 05 2011 - 02:39:52 EEST

> On 04.08.2011 21:39, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
>> 2. More interrestingly, the "appeal to famous artists" didn't seem to
>> be well received... What seems to come out though is that although the
>> FOSS community seems to be good to produce software, we don't seem to
>> be good at advertising it :)
>> - Ardour has...49 followers on facebook... Nothing on the wall...
>> - Hydrogen...94...and one entry on the wall...
>> - Couldn't find a # tag for any of these on Twitter...
>>
> Hi Aurélien,
>
> as a developer of hydrogen let me chime in here.. I think it could be a
> good idea
> to think a little bit about the "marketing" of our applications. At the
> moment
> the presentation of hydrogen is more or less restricted to our homepage
> and our mailing lists.
> I've posted rarely to a facebook group (i think you didn't find it), but
> that was all. It's hard and cumbersome to use all channels at once
> (twitter, google+, etc...) if all you want to do is publish a release
> notification or something like this..
>> I know I know, we are not advertisers, we are developers!
>> But what if a small group of us (and yeah, including me :)) would do
>> that?
> Do you have any specific ideas there? Maybe a "linux audio booth" at
> fairs would be a nice idea as a joined project. I had this idea earlier
> for hydrogen, but it is very hard for one small project to organize (and
> pay for) such an event.
> - Sebastian

That is happening to a small degree. But we don't have a package we cn
roll out if the opportunity arises.

--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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