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On 08/05/2011 10:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:

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> 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

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