On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:23 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> The alleged benefit for you, Nando, would be to cut your workload by a
>> significant amount. But that clearly isn't happening.
>
> Well, it _has_ happened, just not to the degree, or as fast as we
> expected it to happen. Part of it may be that there are more options now
> in terms of distributions and users have migrated over the years to
> other distros, and some of those may be audio apps packagers as well.
Right.
So this is a conversation that I'm having, in some form or another, all
across the Fedora universe. Step 1, for me, was to make sure that Fedora
functioned as an actual *community*. Mission accomplished, more or less.
So step 2 is basically marketing, and showing everybody how awesome Fedora
and Fedora-related projects can be.
The absence of CCRMA from that survey that got passed around the
ccrma-list a coupld of months back really stuck in my craw, I must say.
Hmmm, survey??
But that's our fault, to some degree.
So maybe the question is, how do we promote CCRMA?
I think one way we promote it by noting who does the work. "Maintained by
professors at Stanford" has got to be a pretty big selling point.
I'm not into marketing but that one does not quite excite me... :-)
Maybe: "a system that works from people that use it", but then what do
we do when the system does not work? Or "providing a working low latency
sound and music environment since 2001", but then again sometimes things
just don't work, see, I'm not good at marketing :-)
I know that a lot of people don't have much stomach for this kind
of work,
but it's important, especially in community projects, to generate
excitement around excellent work.
I guess the time comes when we have to turn on to marketing? Arghh...
How much marketing have I done? One initial post to the cmdist mailing
list at CCRMA in 2001 and then mostly word of mouth. Every once in a
while the inevitable "which one is the best distro for audio and music"
comes up in the linux audio lists and if no one suggests Planet CCRMA
then I speak up (a little).
More to say, but it is getting late (I'm right now in Berlin of all
places, teaching for a few months at TU-Berlin's electronic music
studio, just got here last Friday).
Nighty night...
-- Fernando