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On 08/05/2011 02:05 PM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:

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> 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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