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| title: "Jamulus — Play music online with friends." | ||||||
| lang: "en" | ||||||
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| ldjAppCategory: "Music" | ||||||
| ldjSlogan: "Play music online with friends." | ||||||
| ldjCreator: "Volker Fischer and contributors" | ||||||
| metadescription: "Copylefted libre software for musicians to perform, rehearse or just jam — all in real time over the Internet." | ||||||
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Need a link here. The FSF site isn't good. There was a problem hiding this comment. This is what Google displays when one searches "Jamulus", and for that reason I am cautious about being so accurate at the cost of comprehension by a large audience ("copylefted" etc). Previously I tried: "Jamulus is open source software that lets musicians perform music, rehearse or just jam together, all in real time over the Internet." I do recommend that word "together" as real-time collaboration is a key differentiator that "real time" might not convey. There was a problem hiding this comment. "Open source software" is becoming common vocabulary whilst "Copylefted" and "libre" are not, so I would definitely shy away from them. Given that the software is GPL, language describing it should follow Free Software Foundation conventions in my view. There was a problem hiding this comment. @mcfnord @pljones Moreover, the older nomenclature is in the language of the FSF "free software", predating "open source" by 15 years. The OSI and the FSF differ in the licenses they vouch for. (Like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybase_Open_Watcom_Public_License for example.) In today's marketplace, Jamulus is not trying to sell shareholders on taking risks and downplaying preconceived notions in 1998, and has everything to gain by distancing itself from its aftermath. Competing on price and assuming the position of freeware is old news. The ecosystem has left this behind long ago, and instead invites the worst parts of it to an equal playing-field. Edit: It should say "open source" somewhere, as it is very searchable (prolific use). There was a problem hiding this comment. That's why we wrote free and open source software licensed under the GPL. But that's much too long, I agree. I did a lot of research concerning Free vs Open source software in the past, but I think we must face reality where not everything can be precise. Libre software is not well known enough, open source is but is not accurate, free software is FSF speech,... It's always a tradeoff: --> Suggestion here would be ... open source (FLOSS) ... software
There was a problem hiding this comment. We want something a sixth grader would understand, which is: "Jamulus is free, open source software that lets musicians perform music, rehearse or just jam together, all in real time over the Internet." There was a problem hiding this comment. Text, and lots of it; the preferred medium of six-graders everywhere. |
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| mAltProgIcon: "Jamulus icon" | ||||||
| mTSlogan: "Play music online. With friends." | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Please leave this out for now. We should decide on a slogan in with a larger number of contributors based on the outcome of a discussion. There was a problem hiding this comment. Is someone going to be upset that "For free" is removed? There was a problem hiding this comment. Jamulus competes with commercial offerings, and its price is a differentiator. There was a problem hiding this comment. OK, lets put that into the context of donations, or similar.
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| mTGetStartedNow: "Get started now!" | ||||||
| mTDownloadNow: 'Download now for' | ||||||
| mTOtherPlatforms: 'other platforms' | ||||||
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| <h2>Jamulus?</h2> | ||||||
| <a href="wiki/Getting-Started" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Set it up now</a> and play together remotely. Collaborative high quality, low-latency sound via broadband. With friends, your band, or someone found online. | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. We already have a very prominent Getting Started button. I do not think that we need it here again. Give a short description which includes the most important key phrases and use cases. This statement should inform users and Google about what the app is about. There was a problem hiding this comment. There are two buttons. One is positioned before any of the info, so it is a tough sell.
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| <h2>Worldwide</h2> | ||||||
| Huge choirs, rock bands, folk and classical musicians, remote music lessons, in schools and universities, | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. This should also include the word Jamulus and not be that brief.
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| private or public. Even the spoken word — as if you were there in person. | ||||||
| <h2>Help?</h2> | ||||||
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| Check out the <a href="wiki/Getting-Started" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">documentation</a>. Especially the <a href="wiki/Client-Troubleshooting" | ||||||
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| target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">troubleshooting</a>! | ||||||
| You can also ask on the <a href="https://github.com/jamulussoftware/jamulus/discussions" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">forums</a>. | ||||||
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| <h2>Get involved</h2> | ||||||
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| Use, see, change, and share — with all. <a href="https://github.com/jamulussoftware">write code</> or <a href="https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/jamulus/">translate it on Weblate</a>.<br/> | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. I think this should stay roughly similar to what it was and not mostly link to Weblate. There was a problem hiding this comment. It halfway links to GitHub, and halfway links to Weblate. Edit: I think there should be a Weblate link in icon form at the bottom, like there is for GitHub. There was a problem hiding this comment.
Probably yes. The Weblate logo should be svg and use the same color as the other ones.
But it doesn't explicitly say "on GitHub"
Exactly. I think it should be linked prominently in the contributing paragraph as mostly developers (or users with coding background should know about it).
I think it gets philosophic here. I think contribution and the basic (4) rights in spirit of the Free Software foundation are very closely linked, at least in practice. There was a problem hiding this comment. Yes, but the sequence in which things are presented is important. Just service design. Why give GitHub a handout?
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| The <a href="wiki/Contribution">contribution guidelines</a> has more info. | ||||||
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| Info on the 5th dimension of collaborative sound to be found in <a href="/PerformingBandRehearsalsontheInternetWithJamulus.pdf">this paper by Volker Fischer (PDF)</a>. | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. It should be evaluated on the merit of having the website scroll for how good of an amusing passage it is. There was a problem hiding this comment. I support the trimming of this far out word jazz. There was a problem hiding this comment.
Agree. But as @gilgongo added it in the first time, I think it's fair to let him judge it. There was a problem hiding this comment. How does "space-time continuum" change SEO patterns? There was a problem hiding this comment. @mcfnerd Having stuff mentioned on the landing page that is not found elsewhere on the site doesn't work well. There was a problem hiding this comment. I've no problem with changing that - it wasn't a particularly considered addition of mine in the first place :-) |
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Thanks for that. Somehow this broke the site?
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Probably not a registered class somewhere?
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I think it's something bigger. As soon as we want to edit anything on the main page, po4a complains.
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There's an
amissing in the tag after "write code" (it should be</a>instead of</>), line 46 in1-Index.html.