Hi, regarding Twitter, it is very network related, you register to a feed and possibly forward to your followers. I am not sure this would finally "touch/ping" the final user. Either you already know Debian(Med), and this could be usefull as simple informational feed, or you don't know it and I am not sure Twitter will help...
Olivier ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Andreas Tille" <[email protected]> > À: "Debian Med Project List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Debian Project" <[email protected]>, "Debian Events EU" > <[email protected]> > Envoyé: Dimanche 10 Avril 2011 19:43:14 > Objet: Report from Med@Tel > Hi, > > I would like to give a short report about my presence at Med@Tel in > Luxembourg. This conference for medicine informatics had some Open > Source track and the organisers invited me to give an introduction > about > Debian Med. The slides of my talk are available as well as the paper I > submitted for the abstract book[1]. The audience were about 20 people > somehow connected to some medical Open Source project and the talk was > well received. (For instance I've got a warm handshake: "Thanks for > what you are doing" afterwards.) > > What always astonishes me is that people in all circumstances I'm > reporting about Debian Med immediately agree with me that this is > something which is really helpful and needed. However, even if I'm > traveling through the world since eight years to talk about this > concept > - not only for the topic of medicine, also for other fields - people > consider it brand new and they were not aware that such a thing really > exists. The obvious conclusion is that I (or rather we Debian people) > somehow failed in advertising it. > > We could even say that Debian could serve as (buzz-word alarm) > application store for different fields of work. While we probably are > a > bit nervous about such kind of buzz words it actually fits to some > extend to what we are doing (at least I came to this conclusion when > talking to other conference participants). More advertising adictive > people than we would sell Debian as this. While I'm hesitating to sell > Debian as "something" we probably need to adapt to the language our > potential users are speaking to let them understand what we are doing. > In times where importand people pronounce "Debian was a pointless > exercise"[2] we should not trust that users simply find their way to > Debian just by evaluating its technical brilliance. We (at least the > Debian Med team) are now targeting at other user groups as well. > > For instance I talked to an engaged Fedora user who liked the support > of > medical software inside Debian. When I told him that there is also > support for Education, Science, Multimedia, GIS, Games, etc. he could > not even believe this. (I think I finally got this guy convinced when > I > explained him that we even support kFreeBSD which enables him to use > ZFS > and it took me about 5min to make sure he really understood what we > provide - at first he believed in certain hacks, chroots, VMs > whatever.) > > But this guy made an important point: If we obviosely fail in > advertising the cool stuff we just have, what about using social media > like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. I'm personally quite ignorant of > all this stuff. However, if I look over the shoulder of some of my > friends and see with what pieces of "information" they are poluting > the > "byte space" by using twitter so that I'm convinced that it is a > reasonable thing to ignore this medium - I could perfectly imagine to > twitter any uploaded Debian package. Something like > > Uploaded <pkg> <version> - <shortdescription> > > and in the case of Debian Med enriched with '#DebianMed' could do a > reasonable job. Once implemented this could serve as a quite cheap way > to get some attention amongst potential users. > > What do you think about this and what other chances do you see to make > use of social media to make the things we are doing right more > popular? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/201104_luxembourg > [2] > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/our-exclusive-interview-with-linus-torvalds-lca2011/ > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
