Re: [LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

On 08/05/2011 02:05 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> 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.
It would be good if the LinuxMusicians WIKI would be merged into the
Linuxaudio WIKI and have one instead probably ...

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Received on Fri Aug 5 16:15:05 2011