Thank you, Emilio!
The misleading name issue you mentioned was discussed already (someone
proposed to rename it to *Love Making Music Studio*, which I personally
liked), but other said that LMMS is an established brand (like "Pepsi") and
dropping the name could hurt us a lot. Others replied we can keep a
"formerly: LMMS" caption under the new name for some time.
I'd support the idea of bringing a new, better fitting name and logo.
There's a Paul Giblock's initiative to re-write LMMS named Unison
Studio<http://sourceforge.net/projects/unison/> -
I remember it also had a really nice logo. I don't know what's with that
but I'll try to get some information about this.
2014/1/9 Emilio Coppola <coppolaemi...@gmail.com>
> One of the main problems is working using mailing lists. Using a platform
> like github will not only provide us exposure but it will also help the
> user to report bugs, submit changes and see that the program its alive.
> Right now the repository is for most of the population "hidden". This being
> a program targeted to musicians that have no programming knowledge makes it
> even harder to compete with other products as FL studio since they have a
> better user interface and design. Which brings me to the second point:
> The design is horrible. It looks like a program made on the 90. The name
> has the word Linux on it and it claims to be multimedia but it's an audio
> program.
> The sourceforge website is very simple but not engaging. It doesn't try to
> engage any person on using the program.
>
> So, with all this said in my broken English (sorry) I want to offer my
> time to help the project. I can provide a better website and take care of
> some part in the coordination of this initiative. I have built some simple
> tools for my own needs but they can also be used for LMMS to move forward
> into a better stage.
>
> Thanks for staying active!
>
>
> 2014/1/9 Tobiasz Karoń <unf...@gmail.com>
>
>> [ *listen to this e-mail* - download Ogg <http://goo.gl/Bvrnu4> or
>> MP3<http://goo.gl/t0cT56>]
>>
>> 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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