Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 11:43:15 AM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi All > > Here are some of my ideas for getting started with the Freemarker Twitter > account > > *Adding the ASF logo as a Twitter header* > A few projects have added the ASF logo to their twitter account to > reinforce the relationship. Here is an example > > https://twitter.com/ApacheFlex and https://twitter.com/ApacheFluo > > The existing twitter header for the freemarker account is just blue > so adding some colour with the Apache logo could liven it up a little
This would be fine, except that we are incubating. So I suppose we had to combine that with the Incubator logo (egg) and even the disclaimer. > *Twitter Freemarker Graphic* > It's not major but this looks a bit blurry so it might be good if we improve > the quality of it, A bit? A higher resolution logo is definitely needed. Someone wants to throw it together? It can say <#> (like our favico on freemarker.org) or <#fm> or <#f> or anything more imaginative. > *General Comments* > The account has made 42 tweets and have 278 followers. Your number > of followers is significant and looking at them they are global so > some good opportunities to spread the word. > > The Freemarker twitter account isn't following anyone. The main way > to find out what is happening in the industry, in the wider > community etc is to follow other Twitter accounts. (It's a bit like > a news feed). This is useful as it is a way for you to see what is > happening. It is also a way that your followers can talk about what > interesting things they are doing. > > Twitter also provides statistics on how many people look at your > tweet or re-tweet it to a wider audience so we could use this a as > measure to see what is popular (or not!). This is a useful way to promote > Freemarker. > > I suggest that you follow the ASF Twitter account, ASF Infra (so > you know if there are any infra issues) and Apachecon for events. I suppose it can't have any negative effects, and it makes our twitter user look more real, so, why not... Any objections? > You can also follow the twitter accounts of other related projects > or technologies and also people who are active on the mailing list > and active on twitter. For example we could post a message on this > list asking people if they tweet community relevant information and > want to be followed by the project. Fine with me. > *Events* > We can tweet about events that members of the community will attend > â so first we need to let people know about what events are coming > up that they might find interesting. For example FOSDEM is coming up > next month and is completely free to attend. They have main tracks > and developer rooms. Is there anything that could be relevant to the > Freemarker Community? > > https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/ > > *General Tweet Topics* > These are a couple of areas that we could agree that the tweets > need to fit into. See below for my suggestions. > > 1. Project News and Current Discussions, Releases, Events / > Meetups, Tutorials, Freemarker implementations announcements > 2. Community Related (eg. Collaboration,, What we are working on, > Where we are looking for help etc) Look good to me. > I will post a separate message for some proposed tweets as this > post might generate some discussion and it would be good to keep them > separate. > > I hope this is useful so please let me have your feedback, comments or > suggestions. > > Thanks > Sharan > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany
