Re: [LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 05 2011 - 12:06:57 EEST

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:

> 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.

Advanced users of...? Do you know how puzzling it is for a Linux
newbie to figure out that a clean Ubuntu installation (which what they
usually will start from) is not good enough for audio production? That
there are at least half a dozen of specialized distributions? And the
list goes on :)

> 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...)

Yep

> - A simple message

Yep

> - And see how that goes to repeat the experience (or not!)
>
> I still agree that we should centralize the action though!

Indeed :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
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