On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, May 27, 2011 06:59:21 PM Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 17:19 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> > On Sunday, May 22, 2011 06:04:58 AM Chuck Payne wrote: >> > > {ATTENTION} Please pass this a long to your friends that this might >> > > effect/ >> > > >> > > >> > > Sorry for the cross post but I want to make sure everyone knows that >> > > we will be updating the Facebook following openSUSE Group. >> > > >> > > http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=762429462#!/group.php?gid=225683 >> > > 4487 >> > > >> > > Once we update to the new group format, all currently a member will >> > > need to rejoin. We currently have over 5,500 members, and there is no >> > >> > Chuck, I'm confused. >> > >> > The page still says "This group is scheduled to be archived" - and I did >> > not need to get re-added. >> > >> > So, is the group now converted to the new format or not? >> > >> > Andreas >> >> Unfortunately, this is a big mess caused by Facebook themselves. Chuck >> and I have both re-read several times what the message from Facebook >> meant and the text is quite misleading. This email announcement was >> unfortunately premature and misleading (fault of Facebook for putting in >> vague text) because we cannot "re-join" but rather we can only join >> somewhere else. Read more below... >> >> Some time ago, Facebook introduced Pages (replacing the old Fan Pages) >> and encouraged large organizations to move from Groups to Pages. Many, >> including ourselves, chose to stick with Groups because of its >> flexibility that Pages didn't offer. Facebook is now taking a >> proactive strong-arm tactic to force those that should be on Pages to >> move from Groups. >> >> Therefore, as you re-read the text a few times you'll see its clear that >> while Facebook says they'll archive you unless you upgrade to the new >> Groups format, they are not allowing everyone to do that, including >> openSUSE. Therefore, there will be no new Group for Facebook for >> openSUSE, however we can choose to maintain the old group in its >> archived fashion. Simply put, Facebook rejects our Group because we are >> too large. > >> [...] > > What a mess. :-( > > Since Chuck send out an announcement broadly that we switch the group, I > suggest that we also send out an announcement that Facebook failed to do so > ;-( > > Bryen, thanks for trying to followup with Facebook on some of these points but > let's make in the next days some kind of announcement on how to move forward > and not wait forever. > > Thanks, > Andreas > -- > Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE > aj@{novell.com,suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) > GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
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