On 06/07/17 17:28, Erik Albers wrote:
> I think you get the point. Metrics in the real world are pretty hard to > interpret. However, like it or not, metrics in the digital sphere and on > (proprietary) social media platforms seem easier to access and to make > connections. For example when our president shares our new merchandise product > and it got 500 shares and sold out in 24h. Or when someone did share our > nocloud-sticker with a link to our order-page on reddit [1] and we got in 48h > nearly as much orders as in the rest of the year, then we can clearly see an > impact we made (or someone else made) in 5 minutes. > Metrics based on purchases, votes (not surveys/polls) or number of people in a meeting/talk are definitely a lot more meaningful than clicks, hits or likes. When I nominated for the fellowship representative position[1] on the GA, I wrote two blogs, participated in the IRC session and used no social media. > Please, do not get me wrong. This shall not favor online activity above > offline-activity. I am a big supporter of offline-activities and I assume them > to be very important for our message, community and cooperation. I mainly > wanted to make a point about the complexity of numbers, data, impact, > assumptions and so on to avoid too simple assumptions. > Thanks for clearing that up. Maybe we need to have a dedicated thread about offline activities, how FSFE can support them, how to reach out to people who we don't normally encounter at hacker events? Regards, Daniel 1. http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_29119d29f759bbf8 _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
