Ok, thank you for your feedback. Here is an imperfect summary of the discussion so far, focusing on the outreach:
- We need to host conversations that our core audience of music makers and projects supporting them consider beneficial, useful to them.
- We need to invite the projects and communities already working on fair music distribution and exchange.
- We need to build on the existing knowledge of all these actors, which is currently spread and hard to find.
- We need to promote cross-project collaborations with specific common goals that actually materialize into something useful.
- We need to offer a space that (aspirational) professional music makers and related project roles feel safer, productive, and rewarding – not another place where “the community at large” puts pressure on them for support and features.
Even more condensed:
- focus on high quality discussions for our core audience
- continue inviting projects relevant for these discussions
- build a knowledge base capturing what we know and supporting discussions about what we don’t know yet.
I fully agree with all this, and will prioritize related work on Betatesting TSMN accordingly.
At the same time, are you saying… If you build it, they will come? Because so far nobody has mentioned outreach-outreach activities beyond reaching out to friends and to projects in our immediate neighborhood. It’s fine! Not complaining, there is enough to do for starters. Just checking that this is what we (collectively) mean.