linuxaudio.org

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:05:32 +0200

Jeremy Jongepier  wrote:
> Centralization would be a good thing I think, information is now too

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> 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.

> 

I think this is a good point - for this whole thing to not become too

disperse and hard to maintain by a few persons in their spare time, it

has to be very focused. If the intent is to pubblicize and help

migration of audio users to linux systems, I think the focus should be

kept on few bigger applications - ardour, hydrogen and then some else -

that provide a basic, solid, all round setup for a new user. A

working setup should be provided/documented very well for those - then

if someone wants to experiment more, he'll find by himself seq24 and

ams - for example. 
Also this would maybe help the ethical issue of rebranding that Harry

is posing (if I understood it right) - rebranding and pubblicization

efforts would only be spent on the bigger apps, while smaller ones

which have a small team of devs (or just one in many cases) wouldn't be

burdened by this, while still having the benefits of a larger user

base. 
my 2¢ ;)
renato

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