On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> On 4/11/12, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> 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. >> >
Hi Alexandro, I did not see any response from you. Did you see this post? -Rob > Hi Alexandro, > > Sorry, this probably makes more sense if you read the thread from the start: > > http://markmail.org/message/f3o37t2ostyqe3sy > > By "contribute to the AOO project" I mean give control to the AOO PMC, > so we can use it as a project-wide account, similar to how we treat > the 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. > > To implement this sort of group control we would need to look at some > service like BirdHerd or similar for individual authors, and then have > the "root" login given to Apache Infra to store securely. Or > something like that. > > -Rob > > >>> >>> -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
