On 4/11/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> 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? >> > > Hi Alexandro -- Is the above your Twitter account? If so, would you > be willing to contribute it to the AOO project, so we can rebrand it > and allow other PMC members to have write access to it, etc.?
Not sure what u mean to contribute it to AOO project, is that a specific email? I can rebrand it, the account used to sit on a service that allow multiple people to manage it, unfortunately the service is no longer being offered. So I need to look for something similar. > > -Rob > > >> 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. >> >> >> -Rob > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org
