I forgot to include a link for the page itself: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apache-Derby/173708932674204
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Tiago Espinha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure if there's a mailing list for which this would be more > appropriate (a dev list seems a bit odd.. but this way I can reach out to > everyone involved) but I wanted to get feedback. I created a Facebook page > for Apache Derby and the main goal for now would be to attract students for > Google Summer of Code. Eventually we could (maybe unofficially) announce new > releases and even Apache's own mentorate programme there. > > It's just that social media is getting really big and it's easier than ever > to get free advertising by using it. Maybe it would also be a good idea to > have a twitter account where we announce this kind of things? I wouldn't > mind taking care of this, and I confess I jumped the gun a bit with the > Facebook page but I'd like to hear the community's opinion on it. Would we > need some kind of ASF permission to have these extra communication channels? > (Considering we use a "brand" owned by ASF?) > > In the end I think we have a lot to gain. If we increase our dev-base we'll > be able to make Derby even better, and based on our JIRA issues list, it > seems to me we could really use extra pairs of hands... > > So what are your thoughts on this? I can delete the Facebook page if the > community doesn't think it's appropriate. > > Cheers, > Tiago >
