Zak Greant (Bacula) wrote: Gee isn't that the sort of stuff I would expect to get in an rss feed ? or is rss dead now that 12yr old girls have discovered twitter ?
Since I don't know any 12yr old girls that make backups, I think we can safely say this was a waste of time. > Greetings Folks, > > My name is Zak Greant. I've been helping the Bacula Systems folks out > for the last month or so, mostly with a focus on community support and > Free Software/Open Source strategy and relations. > > I've set up Identi.ca and Twitter accounts for Bacula and have been > intermittently posting to the Twitter account. > > Bacula Systems shouldn't control this account - it is a resource that > should be community-managed. > > I've made a set of recommendations on the use of the accounts and > would like feedback. > > I'd recommend that we use the accounts to: > > Make key announcements, such as: > * major Bacula releases > * security announcements > * new third-party Bacula tools > * community member support messages > * key FLOSS initiatives that affect the Bacula community or the > broad ecosystem that we are part of > * etc. > > Provide guiding, one-time support for people who twitter about trouble > with Bacula. We can find these people via searches like > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+...scot+bacula%22) Visit > http://twitter.com/bacula to see real-life examples of this. > > * Provide a single response to abusive or vulgar posts directed > @bacula. Block the user on subsequent abuse. > > * Careful promotion of commercial or proprietary ventures. Some of us > have non-salary commercial interests related to Bacula, but this isn't > the forum for promoting them. We should mention new products and new > support, but that is more for informing people, building good > relationships between vendors and the community, and showing that > Bacula is a vibrant project with many different kinds of participants. > > I propose that we use Identi.ca as our primary point of posting - it > is a free (as in freedom) service run on free software/open source and > can feed posts straight to Twitter. We can choose community members > who can feed content to the Identi.ca account. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
