LMMS
Competitions for Themes ,Presets etc
to attracts more users into development ,we somehow want to motivate them to learn coding. To Do this ,reading a CSS file , understanding it, modifying it will be helpful Good Start . That's why I put an idea before developers' panel That every years 2 competitions are conducted more.
- Best of LMMS Gui theme
- Best Presets
Winners creations will be included in further official copy of LMMS ,and joy of creativity with recognition will be 2 motivating factors to participate in these competitions .
Making a Innovative Preset is very challenging job and it teaches us tremendous too . For Best Presets a plugin or instrument is chosen (which doesn't have Randomizer facility) And for that plugin/instrument a competition is announced . i.e. Opulenz FM.
Thus ,in a short period of time we can generate thousands of presets . And we can attract maximum users into contribution side.
I vote to close this as I see several issues with it that don't occur with BOL:
- Themes and presets are meant to be used rather than just looked at/listened to. I think this would complicate judging, and it's already tricky to judge BOL. Presets that sound cool on first listen aren't necessarily useful for actual production, and themes that look cool might not always be good for long term use.
- Factory content should be CC0. BOL submitters only have to give us permission to release their song on the winner's album, whereas submitters for this competition would have to give everyone a license to use their submission as they please.
- Factory content needs to be maintained. Any included themes and presets have to be updated to ensure they continue to work.
- Factory content should be relatively stable. Removing content once it's added is a big deal, so we'd be committing to keeping the content in for a long time.
- Factory content should be minimal. Endless lists of presets are bad for productivity and download size. This contest would mean that the list is ever-growing.
- Factory content should be quality. What happens if none of the submissions are really good enough? Adding sub-par content because we promised someone would win is really bad, but so is holding a contest and then saying "you all lose".
