All: M&P is working on a social media policy for retiring social media accounts. >From our perspective, there are two scenarios for social media account retirement:
- "Sub" accounts that a project may have that they no longer want to do the upkeep for. A recent example of this is @aoobugs, which the OpenOffice project no longer wishes to maintain. - "Marquee" accounts that represent an entire project. This would be if, say JUDDI had an X account when it went to the attic. The overall goal for all of these is to prevent other users from coming in and using these accounts, possibly to misrepresent an ASF project, and also (in the case of the attic'ed projects) have the social media account held in abeyance in case the project were ever reactivated, at which time the social media account could be returned to the project's control. For the sub accounts, M&P is planning to create a brief set of suggested guidelines for projects to retire these accounts. For marquee accounts, I wanted to ask you all if there are any existing policies or procedures in place for social media accounts, as we obviously would not want to reinvent the wheel or disrupt an existing process. Thanks, Brian Brian Proffitt VP, Marketing & Publicity VP, Conferences
