On Apr 11, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Apr 11, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> Social media outreach, via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc., is an >>> important part of outreach to users. Although the Apache developer >>> community is firmly rooted in mailing lists, we know that our users >>> live in a different world. If we want to engage with them we need to >>> use the tools that they use, and communicate the way they communicate. >>> >>> Now that we're very close to the AOO 3.4 release, I'd like to start >>> with a project Twitter account, under PPMC control. >>> >>> By "under PPMC control" I mean something similar to how we treat the >>> project blog: >>> >>> -- Any PPMC member, upon request, can have write access. >>> >>> -- We can use the project's official logo in conjunction with the account. >>> >>> -- We would promote the account on our project's website. >>> >>> -- We would generally treat the account as an official voice of the >>> project, not as a personal account. >>> >>> I'm not saying we need to pre-review and and approve every "tweet" >>> sent through the account. But we should set expectations that the >>> account is to be used in a professional fashion, upholding the >>> standards of this project, not used to settle personal disputes, to >>> promote personal business, etc. >>> >>> There are already several Twitter accounts that use the OOo name or >>> trademarks: >>> >>> http://twitter.com/#!/openofficeorg --- This account has 1571 >>> followers. But it is not sharing any AOO status, no links to blog >>> posts, announcements, etc. Who controls it? Are >>> we able to get it under PPMC control? Can we rebrand it as Apache >>> OpenOffice? >>> >>> http://twitter.com/#!/openoffice -- This account seems unused. Only one >>> tweet. >>> >>> http://twitter.com/#!/freeopenoffice -- spammer account. Links to >>> http://www.downloadopenofficefree.com/. >>> >>> http://twitter.com/#!/ApacheOO -- I created this account, though have >>> never used it. Unfortunately, "Apache OpenOffice" is too long for a >>> Twitter account name. So "ApacheOO" is the closest I got. I would >>> offer this account to the PPMC if we are not able to get use of the >>> http://twitter.com/#!/openofficeorg account. >>> >>> Proposed actions: >>> >>> 1) I'll send note (or Tweet) to http://twitter.com/#!/openofficeorg >>> acccount, asking if the owner would be willing to make the account >>> available to the AOO PPMC for project use. If we get a favorable >>> response then we would start using that account, rebrand it, promote >>> it, etc. >>> >>> 2) If there is no favorable response to the above, then we would go >>> forward with promoting the http://twitter.com/#!/ApacheOO account. >>> >>> 3) The PPMC could decide, at a later point, to invoke Twitter's >>> trademark policy to register complaints about accounts that misuse our >>> trademarks in ways that harm our users: >>> https://support.twitter.com/articles/18367. But I don't see an >>> imminent need for that. >> >> (4) Make the project's twitter feed show up as part of www.openoffice.org's >> main page. See http://www.apache.org/ Latest activity for an example about >> how this is done using the Apache CMS. >> > > There is an RSS feed associated with each Twitter account. So we could > also integrate that into an "OpenOffice Planet" if we decide to create > that.
I'm not talking about a planet. I'm talking about twitter content on the main page updated every hour. We can similarly show the most recent svn commits on the project site. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> -Rob >>
