David Boyes wrote: > > On 4/28/09 1:13 PM, "Zak Greant (Bacula)" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Given that any useful question to the development community (or the > user community, for that matter) is likely to require supporting > materials like logs that will in no possible way fit in 140 > characters, can I ask what’s the practical point of a Bacula Twitter > account other than to seem trendy? It’s useless for diagnostics, and > almost useless for announcements. It seems kind of silly to me to try > to turn what we do in these mailing lists into sound bites for > terminal ADD sufferers. > > Also, if this is a Bacula Systems thing, then they should be funding, > staffing and/or supporting it.
David: was there something in particular which made you think the Twitter account was a Bacula Systems thing? > As you comment, this mailing list isn’t a forum for promoting > commercial ventures, and I would argue that if @bacula is to represent > the project, not the commercial company, then anything commercial > should be clearly separated and identifiable as such. I would think the @bacula should be governed by existing policies that cover the mailing lists. No new policy needs to be created. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
