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Hi everyone!
My name is unfa and I'm a music producer, songwriter and vocalist. I make
electronic music with LMMS/ZynAddSubFX duo. My last
album<http://goo.gl/yTNC4v>sold in 15 copies ;)
I'm nearly a daily user of Linux MultiMedia Studio. However still I came to
fight a strong feeling that LMMS project is barely alive.
The project's website seems to change only on new releases. The news
section changes only once a few months and could be renamed to "Recent
Releases". The screenshots, demos, and Wiki are old and outdated. The
releases seem to appear out-of-nowhere and anonymously without any prior
information or buzz. No one knows if and when will they happen. At least
that's how it feels to me.
However I'm now sure that there are plans, fixes, patches and discussions
going on - they are just hard to see, because they all happen in the
mailing list (or IRC?)
Regardless of what it looks like, this project is huge and to me it is in
top 6 creative FLOSS tools ever made (LMMS, Ardour, Audacity, Blender,
Inkscape, GIMP).
It's THE (as opposed to A) open tool for electronic music creation.
I think we all need to realize this - how important LMMS is to all artists
around the globe. There's nothing like it out there.
However it's sometimes seem hard to believe. Why?
To find out- I'll reach out to another project I'm in love with - Blender.
The open 3D toolkit. I'we been watching it closely for more than a while.
It's as big to have several full-time paid developers working on it and big
investors helping it's development. Putting out big cooperative projects
every year or two - blasting another shockwave of excitement that echoes
with more interest and support.
Watching Blender and LMMS made me think of one reason why LMMS seems asleep
while it's not.
I'm thinking of the weak social aspects of LMMS' website. The Facebook page
does a good job but it's not sufficient and not too exposed on Sourceforge
page. And it doesn't seem to feed enough news anyway.
I am thinking of one way to attract and excite more users and developers
who will help us build this project.
A Blog. A development journal. A place that'll make all work done on LMMS
visible to everyone.
We need to show that we're here, show that many great artists use this,
find them, make music contests, make remix parties, make weekly musical
challenges, make an official video channel with tips and features
explained, with videoblog updates every two weeks, put together a 3-minute
demo video and place it on the front page, make an album of the year
contest, make a track of the month contest, make every release
pre-announced and announced with excitement and passion letting everyone
say "I like it!", make a fundraising campaign, go to Google Summer of Code,
go to Kickstarter, start interviewing developers and users, start a LMMS
podcast, make LMMS conferences, festivals, radio stations, stop being
afraid, stop sitting in the shadow, stop being shy!!
Now, I know this is a bit over-the-top, but hey - possibilities are
endless, all of what I said is possible. We just need to follow a good
plan, see our goals, and we'll make it.
There's so much we can do, so many people who are waiting to hear about us,
who will help us - there are so much creative and capable people out here -
in this community. *Let's wake up!*
- unfa
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