Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 14 May 2009, at 10:22:19 (+0200),
Thomas Gst?dtner wrote:

 If people tried to keep it simple without a service to limit them this
 would be no advantage at all.
 E.g. many blog systems support a digest, if you click on it you see
 the full message (not saying blogs would be the ultimate solution to
 replace twitter).
 The links to the details are probably the worst thing at all: because
 of that limit everyone uses those unspeakable tinyurls...

I never said it was an advantage.  I just said it wasn't a big deal.

 Unfortunately most people (even professionals) have to run after
 every trend.

Hogwash.  Fads come and go, but very few products become vernacular
verbs.  Sites that even technophobes have heard of have that level of
recognition for a reason -- they offer something unique and
significant.  Twitter is not just a trend.  It offers specific
unique features which are valuable to businesses and users alike.

Especially in tough economic times, businesses are not prone to
wasting money paying people to goof off on the Internet as part of
their job.  Yet numerous businesses pay people to tweet and to follow
others' tweets.  Why?  Because their is business value in being able
to catch people bitching about your company and try to resolve their
complaints in a way which is visible to the same audience which was
privvy to the original complaint.  That's not a fad; that's a
revolutionary reduction in the gap separating companies and customers.

 I bet most professionals who use twitter also use facebook,
 myspace and at least one other social network.

So what?  I use all of those sites myself.  You say that as though
there's something wrong with it.

 This is going so far, that some of those professionals advertise for
 this companies actively by making information available only for
 other registered users (this beeing a problem in social networks,
 not twitter (yet)).  In the end it isn't of much use and the
 140-char limit might improve the communication skills of some
 people, but not the information flow, so you always end up looking
 for really relevant or really interesting information (having to
 sort 90% 140-char messages out).

Wrong again.  You can say a lot in 140 characters.  I know of one
specific case recently where a friend of mine bitched about a
particular ISP in a tweet (sent from his Nokia E-series, I might add),
and within minutes he was contacted by representatives of that very
ISP offering to help resolve his dissatisfaction.

The simple fact is that part of Twitter's success is the 140-character
limit.  It gives people an excuse for both brevity and frequency.

 That's not what I meant. Of course it can, and would be, official,
 but imho lacks the official style of information on the own website.

That doesn't make any sense.  If you mean its style is informal,
that's not a bad thing.  Not everyone wants to feel like they are
inferior.

 Was talking about the user, not the author. And imho this
 webinterface is terrible.

You can also receive Twitter updates via SMS, RSS, web, mobile apps,
...even Facebook.  Works both ways.

Here's the bottom line:  Different people like to get their
information in different ways.  I think the CIA bot is a repugnant
idea, but lots of people love it.  If someone is willing to
disseminate information in a way that others will find useful, stop
discouraging them.  It doesn't hurt you, and it will probably help the
community overall.

Michael

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Michael Jennings e-de...@kainx.org wrote:
 On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200),
 Thomas Gst?dtner wrote:

 Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that
 doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of
 maintaining a official information source on e.org with 1) no 140
 char limit 2) more professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a
 proper standard to get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.  I
 really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
 the official sources are hardly maintained at all.

 1.  The 140-character limit is fairly soft, and it keeps things to
    digestible chunks with links to the details.

If people tried to keep it simple without a service to limit them this
would be no advantage at all.
E.g. many blog systems support a digest, if you click on it you see
the full message (not saying blogs would be the ultimate solution to
replace twitter).
The links to the details are probably the worst thing at all: because
of that limit everyone uses those unspeakable tinyurls...

 2.  If you think there is a lack of professionals on Twitter, you
    clearly haven't used it.

Unfortunately most people (even professionals) have to run after every
trend. I bet most professionals who use twitter also use facebook,
myspace and at least one other social network. This is going so far,
that some of those professionals advertise for this companies actively
by making information available only for other registered users (this
beeing a problem in social networks, not twitter (yet)).
In the end it isn't of much use and the 140-char limit might improve
the communication skills of some people, but not the information flow,
so you always end up looking for really relevant or really interesting
information (having to sort 90% 140-char messages out).

 3.  It would be as official as we made it.

That's not what I meant. Of course it can, and would be, official, but
imho lacks the official style of information on the own website.

 4.  Twitter also has an RSS feed.  Your point?

Didn't know, but fine, might work for me.

 5.  Twitter can be updated via SMS, countless phone-based
    applications, the web, and (IIRC) e-mail.  How, exactly, is that
    less usable than the E web site?

Was talking about the user, not the author. And imho this webinterface
is terrible.

 Michael

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote:
 my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but
 I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any
 development work on his front, it's just bonus...

Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm, however).
I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a
little disappointed that there is so much discussion about the latest
web2.0 services while in the last 2 years there has been less than
30 minutes work on writing for e.org stuff.

Before there are any complaints about me complaining and not actually
doing stuff: I'd be free to write small news/articles about new stuff
in E world (taking from the svn commits and discussion on the ML which
I follow). If there won't be a possibility to do this directly on
e.org, maybe planet.e.org would be a way if andres improves it like he
said. However, with the information being available on twitter this
would of course be redundant, so I'm not sure if it's still a good
idea.

 if raster stops
 hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
 and beat him to death :-)

You'd have to lend me that stick. :)

 Go massimilano, go!


 On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
 mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
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 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
 be integrated into our community.

 The account is here:
 http://www.twitter.com/edevel

 For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
 obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.

 Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
 Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
 The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
 easily; same thing for password.

 What do you think about?

 Ciao

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200
Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote:

 Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm, 
 however).
 I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a
 little disappointed that there is so much discussion about the latest
 web2.0 services while in the last 2 years there has been less than
 30 minutes work on writing for e.org stuff.

I confirm that I want to go on, for now; it is too earl for me to see
if this test is useful or not. Anyway I'll keep in mind your and
other's objection, this discussion is very useful, imho. 

 Before there are any complaints about me complaining and not actually
 doing stuff: I'd be free to write small news/articles about new stuff
 in E world (taking from the svn commits and discussion on the ML which
 I follow). If there won't be a possibility to do this directly on
 e.org, maybe planet.e.org would be a way if andres improves it like he
 said. However, with the information being available on twitter this
 would of course be redundant, so I'm not sure if it's still a good
 idea.

I want to be clear, again.
NEWS/ARTICLES/BLOG ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
ANYONE THAT WANTS TO DO THAT ARE WELCOME.

And about planet.e.org, it is a good start, but imho we need more than
an aggregator, we need something more official, something like a
corporate blog.

I'm not so skilled about english to do that, i usually write about E in
my blog, only in italian language.

Last (for now, i've to tweet about latest commits :) ), i think having
tweets and posts/articles is not redundant, there are not comparable.
If you like RSS feed, you can subcribe to the RSS blog stream, and if
you like Twitter, you can start follow our (unofficial) account.
There's some redundancy if you follow edevel on twitter AND you
subscribe to the RSS stream of this account, but this is not our
problem, it is just your choice.

Let me do a little example of what i do for my posts (obviously imo this
is a good way); ah, note that i'm registered to Twitter (T), FriendFeed
(FF) and Facebook (FB).

When I write a new post: 
* FF detects an activity in my RSS stream, got title and URL
* FF add this new entry in my streamline
* FF shortens the URL, and make a tweet with title and short URL in my
T streamline
* I linked the T status to the FB status, so every tweet changes my FB
status

What i got? With one shot I notified all of my contacs that follow me
by RSS feed in blog, FF, T and FB.
With this little chain I cover four different way to tell to my
friends/contacts that i done something new.

I'm not saying we have to do that for E, this is sure, it is just to
explain because i think the twitter presence non redundant.

  if raster stops
  hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
  and beat him to death :-)
 
 You'd have to lend me that stick. :)

Please be careful about my head :)

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Luchezar Petkov
I was actually supposed to run a blog about E stuff, but due to... a lot of
reasons I stopped. It wasn't anything official (not linked from e.org)
anyway. Afaik someone else made the same effort (in the same time with me,
thats one of the reasons)Last time I talked with people (well,
programmers..) about this stuff we figured its enough to just have up to
date news on the site with RSS and all. Then having a blog wont be needed.
Twitter is another thing, tho, so if you or someone else wants to twit stuff
about whats happening in E - just go ahead. I wish lots of followers.

I think the biggest problem here is that we actually don't ... make much
news related to end users. Code is being commited daily, but thats mostly
cleanups, (small) bug fixes, refactoring, etc. Not much new features added
to E, nor some really cool apps are being actively developed. And blogs and
Twitter are for the end users who just want to follow the progress of the E
project. The others are subscribing to e-users, devs are on this ml and
certainly don't need additional ways to inform themselves.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli 
mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:

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 On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200
 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote:

  Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm,
 however).
  I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a
  little disappointed that there is so much discussion about the latest
  web2.0 services while in the last 2 years there has been less than
  30 minutes work on writing for e.org stuff.

 I confirm that I want to go on, for now; it is too earl for me to see
 if this test is useful or not. Anyway I'll keep in mind your and
 other's objection, this discussion is very useful, imho.

  Before there are any complaints about me complaining and not actually
  doing stuff: I'd be free to write small news/articles about new stuff
  in E world (taking from the svn commits and discussion on the ML which
  I follow). If there won't be a possibility to do this directly on
  e.org, maybe planet.e.org would be a way if andres improves it like he
  said. However, with the information being available on twitter this
  would of course be redundant, so I'm not sure if it's still a good
  idea.

 I want to be clear, again.
 NEWS/ARTICLES/BLOG ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
 ANYONE THAT WANTS TO DO THAT ARE WELCOME.

 And about planet.e.org, it is a good start, but imho we need more than
 an aggregator, we need something more official, something like a
 corporate blog.

 I'm not so skilled about english to do that, i usually write about E in
 my blog, only in italian language.

 Last (for now, i've to tweet about latest commits :) ), i think having
 tweets and posts/articles is not redundant, there are not comparable.
 If you like RSS feed, you can subcribe to the RSS blog stream, and if
 you like Twitter, you can start follow our (unofficial) account.
 There's some redundancy if you follow edevel on twitter AND you
 subscribe to the RSS stream of this account, but this is not our
 problem, it is just your choice.

 Let me do a little example of what i do for my posts (obviously imo this
 is a good way); ah, note that i'm registered to Twitter (T), FriendFeed
 (FF) and Facebook (FB).

 When I write a new post:
 * FF detects an activity in my RSS stream, got title and URL
 * FF add this new entry in my streamline
 * FF shortens the URL, and make a tweet with title and short URL in my
 T streamline
 * I linked the T status to the FB status, so every tweet changes my FB
 status

 What i got? With one shot I notified all of my contacs that follow me
 by RSS feed in blog, FF, T and FB.
 With this little chain I cover four different way to tell to my
 friends/contacts that i done something new.

 I'm not saying we have to do that for E, this is sure, it is just to
 explain because i think the twitter presence non redundant.

   if raster stops
   hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
   and beat him to death :-)
 
  You'd have to lend me that stick. :)

 Please be careful about my head :)

 Massimiliano
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Luchezar Petkov
luchezar.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think the biggest problem here is that we actually don't ... make much
 news related to end users. Code is being commited daily, but thats mostly
 cleanups, (small) bug fixes, refactoring, etc. Not much new features added
 to E, nor some really cool apps are being actively developed. And blogs and
 Twitter are for the end users who just want to follow the progress of the E
 project. The others are subscribing to e-users, devs are on this ml and
 certainly don't need additional ways to inform themselves.

I really disagree with this. Over the past months we dig, among other things:
   - systray, getting ride of one of the most requested gadgets.
   - lots of efm improvements, progress indicator and all.
   - places menu was integrated, sharing gtk-bookmarks with gnome/gtk apps.
   - fdo icons and option to let users override e icons with fdo icon set.
   - offline and presentation modes.
   - parallax effect for desktop panning/background.
   - edge bindings.
   - scaling factors.
   - ui improvements as syscon and conf modules, with better dialogs.

having someone that is not the developer to write small articles
(blog) or just announcing its existence (twitter) would help people to
know about that, how e17 is changing and etc...

But we should not receive drastic changes, at least not many, in the
next months. While raster still plan to finish wallpaper2 and move
other dialogs to be similar to it (init themes, themes...), we're
doing http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Release and quite close to
finish it on the user interface front.

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
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 On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200
 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote:

 Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm, 
 however).
 I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a
 little disappointed that there is so much discussion about the latest
 web2.0 services while in the last 2 years there has been less than
 30 minutes work on writing for e.org stuff.

 I confirm that I want to go on, for now; it is too earl for me to see
 if this test is useful or not. Anyway I'll keep in mind your and
 other's objection, this discussion is very useful, imho.

 Before there are any complaints about me complaining and not actually
 doing stuff: I'd be free to write small news/articles about new stuff
 in E world (taking from the svn commits and discussion on the ML which
 I follow). If there won't be a possibility to do this directly on
 e.org, maybe planet.e.org would be a way if andres improves it like he
 said. However, with the information being available on twitter this
 would of course be redundant, so I'm not sure if it's still a good
 idea.

 I want to be clear, again.
 NEWS/ARTICLES/BLOG ARE FUNDAMENTAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
 ANYONE THAT WANTS TO DO THAT ARE WELCOME.

 And about planet.e.org, it is a good start, but imho we need more than
 an aggregator, we need something more official, something like a
 corporate blog.

That's exactly what I think. As I said, if there is interest I'd be
free as an author, even though I'm not a dev and only sent some
trivial patches.

 I'm not so skilled about english to do that, i usually write about E in
 my blog, only in italian language.

 Last (for now, i've to tweet about latest commits :) ), i think having
 tweets and posts/articles is not redundant, there are not comparable.
 If you like RSS feed, you can subcribe to the RSS blog stream, and if
 you like Twitter, you can start follow our (unofficial) account.
 There's some redundancy if you follow edevel on twitter AND you
 subscribe to the RSS stream of this account, but this is not our
 problem, it is just your choice.

 Let me do a little example of what i do for my posts (obviously imo this
 is a good way); ah, note that i'm registered to Twitter (T), FriendFeed
 (FF) and Facebook (FB).

 When I write a new post:
 * FF detects an activity in my RSS stream, got title and URL
 * FF add this new entry in my streamline
 * FF shortens the URL, and make a tweet with title and short URL in my
 T streamline
 * I linked the T status to the FB status, so every tweet changes my FB
 status

 What i got? With one shot I notified all of my contacs that follow me
 by RSS feed in blog, FF, T and FB.
 With this little chain I cover four different way to tell to my
 friends/contacts that i done something new.

 I'm not saying we have to do that for E, this is sure, it is just to
 explain because i think the twitter presence non redundant.

  if raster stops
  hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
  and beat him to death :-)

 You'd have to lend me that stick. :)

 Please be careful about my head :)

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 13:33:54 +0200
Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote:

 That's exactly what I think. As I said, if there is interest I'd be
 free as an author, even though I'm not a dev and only sent some
 trivial patches.

For me, thumbs up :)
Being or not a dev isn't a problem, imho prerequisites should be good
english and understanding of E in various levels, depending to the type
of article you want to write.

In this way we move in the right direction.

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:45:56 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
barbi...@profusion.mobi said:

 my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but
 I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any
 development work on his front, it's just bonus... if raster stops
 hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
 and beat him to death :-)

fuck yeah. and you do that. the day i start twittering is the day i give up on
e and throw it in the bin. i barely keep up with my email and irc - screw
twittering.

now... whaat MIGHT be useful is if.. someone reads svn commits and twitters
about them as a summary. i dont much care how - but news that is already there
in a news feed - svn commit mailing list, exists. someone who reads and things
that are interesting writes a quick ditty about. it'd like any of these
twitters to be available at the least as a link from e.org. thats my 2 cents on
this. i wont be twittering. i just dont have the time. code has to be done and
twitter simply takes time away from that. there are peolpe with a less packed
schedule who like to write micro-blogs (twitter) and they would perform and
awesome service if they just read devel list and svn commits - if a log entry
looked interesting - or a mail with info, twitter about it. not abut the latest
my e doesnt build but gustavo added systray and notification modules to the
core e tree today, now they are default. this means out-of-the box support for
these. or raster added a new wallpaper config dialog to e that does funky
animations...

etc. whoever does something interesting/cool/useful - blab about it. most of us
doing these things are too busy doing them and dont have time to blab :)

 Go massimilano, go!
 
 
 On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
 mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
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  Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
  be integrated into our community.
 
  The account is here:
  http://www.twitter.com/edevel
 
  For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
  obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.
 
  Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
  Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
  The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
  easily; same thing for password.
 
  What do you think about?
 
  Ciao
 
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread Luchezar Petkov
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote:

 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Luchezar Petkov
 luchezar.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
  I think the biggest problem here is that we actually don't ... make much
  news related to end users. Code is being commited daily, but thats mostly
  cleanups, (small) bug fixes, refactoring, etc. Not much new features
 added
  to E, nor some really cool apps are being actively developed. And blogs
 and
  Twitter are for the end users who just want to follow the progress of the
 E
  project. The others are subscribing to e-users, devs are on this ml and
  certainly don't need additional ways to inform themselves.

 I really disagree with this. Over the past months we dig, among other
 things:
   - systray, getting ride of one of the most requested gadgets.
   - lots of efm improvements, progress indicator and all.
   - places menu was integrated, sharing gtk-bookmarks with gnome/gtk apps.
   - fdo icons and option to let users override e icons with fdo icon set.
   - offline and presentation modes.
   - parallax effect for desktop panning/background.
   - edge bindings.
   - scaling factors.
   - ui improvements as syscon and conf modules, with better dialogs.

 having someone that is not the developer to write small articles
 (blog) or just announcing its existence (twitter) would help people to
 know about that, how e17 is changing and etc...

 But we should not receive drastic changes, at least not many, in the
 next months. While raster still plan to finish wallpaper2 and move
 other dialogs to be similar to it (init themes, themes...), we're
 doing http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Release and quite close to
 finish it on the user interface front.


Excuse me then, I should have checked and payed more attention on this
things before wriing. Well then I see no problem with people twittering
about this stuff, maybe the twits can even appear on E's front page as news
or .. short news (there's plenty of white space anyway).





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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 14 May 2009 10:32:38 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net
said:

 On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
 barbi...@profusion.mobi wrote:
  my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but
  I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any
  development work on his front, it's just bonus...
 
 Of course he is free to do whatever he wants, it's a free world (erm,
 however). I'm sure this won't keep him from doing his work, but I'm still a
 little disappointed that there is so much discussion about the latest
 web2.0 services while in the last 2 years there has been less than
 30 minutes work on writing for e.org stuff.
 
 Before there are any complaints about me complaining and not actually
 doing stuff: I'd be free to write small news/articles about new stuff
 in E world (taking from the svn commits and discussion on the ML which
 I follow). If there won't be a possibility to do this directly on
 e.org, maybe planet.e.org would be a way if andres improves it like he
 said. However, with the information being available on twitter this
 would of course be redundant, so I'm not sure if it's still a good
 idea.

then DO it! i've suggesting this may times over the years. it hasn't really been
taken up by anyone. :)

  if raster stops
  hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
  and beat him to death :-)
 
 You'd have to lend me that stick. :)
 
  Go massimilano, go!
 
 
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  be integrated into our community.
 
  The account is here:
  http://www.twitter.com/edevel
 
  For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
  obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.
 
  Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
  Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
  The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
  easily; same thing for password.
 
  What do you think about?
 
  Ciao
 
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
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 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
 be integrated into our community.

 The account is here:
 http://www.twitter.com/edevel

 For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
 obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.

 Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
 Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
 The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
 easily; same thing for password.

 What do you think about?

Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't
have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a
official information source on e.org with 1) no 140 char limit 2) more
professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a proper standard to
get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.
I  really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
the official sources are hardly maintained at all.

If you think the news section on e.org should only contain big and
important news there would also be the possibility to have a source
for minor informations (e.g. blog style on blog.enlightenment.org or
whatever). Or maybe better: have 2 sections on the e.org overview
site, let's say news for everything new (even minor things) and
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Toma
2009/5/13 Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net:
 On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
 mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
 be integrated into our community.

 The account is here:
 http://www.twitter.com/edevel

 For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
 obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.

 Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
 Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
 The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
 easily; same thing for password.

 What do you think about?

 Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't
 have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a
 official information source on e.org with 1) no 140 char limit 2) more
 professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a proper standard to
 get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.
 I  really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
 the official sources are hardly maintained at all.


1. A 140 character news feed hardly takes any management.
2. Most professionals and popular people have a twitter. (I dont though.)
3. Would you rather us (dev community) take control of it or some random person?
4. Indeed. RSS is great. Twitter is a much more social way or sharing
news though. No need to put all our eggs in 1 basket.

Its hard to call though, I dont know anyone with twitter in Perth AU.
We're all a little slow on the tech fads. But I know its really
popular elsewhere. As such, I think its a great way for people to get
updates on E and to show their support.

-Toma.

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:38:30 +0200
Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net wrote:

 Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that doesn't
 have any advantage over anything else, instead of maintaining a
 official information source on e.org with 1) no 140 char limit 2) more
 professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a proper standard to
 get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.
 I  really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
 the official sources are hardly maintained at all.
 
 If you think the news section on e.org should only contain big and
 important news there would also be the possibility to have a source
 for minor informations (e.g. blog style on blog.enlightenment.org or
 whatever). Or maybe better: have 2 sections on the e.org overview
 site, let's say news for everything new (even minor things) and
 announcements for all the big stuff (e.g. e17 release!!11 :).

First, thank you for comment.

I disagree with you about useless and less professionalism: it is a
very fast and easy way to communicate, and fits good for all,
professional or not; it is a tool, is what you put in that makes it
personal or professional.
I know that 140 characters is really a little space, this requires to
you to change your way to communicate something, but this is not a
limit, this improve yourself.

About, a blog for E, i'm a little tired about this topic: too many times
heard about, but none for now. To be clear, I'm not agry about this, i
know that maintains a blog requires a lot of time, and most people works
for E in our spare time; just a little sad.

E on Twitter is not here to replace our ways to communicate (IRC,
ml's), it is just another way to communicate and expand the community,
like our fan page in Facebook.

Anyway, this is a test, although seems interesting for ten people that
started following this account.

I'm very happy to waste my time in this way :)

Thanks

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:04:15 +0800
Toma tomha...@gmail.com wrote:

 1. A 140 character news feed hardly takes any management.
 2. Most professionals and popular people have a twitter. (I dont though.)
 3. Would you rather us (dev community) take control of it or some random 
 person?
 4. Indeed. RSS is great. Twitter is a much more social way or sharing
 news though. No need to put all our eggs in 1 basket.
 
 Its hard to call though, I dont know anyone with twitter in Perth AU.
 We're all a little slow on the tech fads. But I know its really
 popular elsewhere. As such, I think its a great way for people to get
 updates on E and to show their support.
 
 -Toma.

Thumbs up :)

Thanks for your reply 

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Jennings
On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200),
Thomas Gst?dtner wrote:

 Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that
 doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of
 maintaining a official information source on e.org with 1) no 140
 char limit 2) more professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a
 proper standard to get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.  I
 really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
 the official sources are hardly maintained at all.

1.  The 140-character limit is fairly soft, and it keeps things to
digestible chunks with links to the details.
2.  If you think there is a lack of professionals on Twitter, you
clearly haven't used it.
3.  It would be as official as we made it.
4.  Twitter also has an RSS feed.  Your point?
5.  Twitter can be updated via SMS, countless phone-based
applications, the web, and (IIRC) e-mail.  How, exactly, is that
less usable than the E web site?

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Arlo White
Regardless of the method, I think there should be two enlightenment 
information streams: one for users and one for developers.  Yes there 
are mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig 
through to get at the interesting bits.  The value of a blog or twitter 
is that it's a distilled information form that keeps you up-to-date with 
the major trends.  For example:


Users would be interested in: Significant application  theme updates, 
new *useable* applications  themes, major news from the developers
Developers are interested in: Development shifts, Programming articles, 
Experimental projects, Research articles, etc.


Most developers will be following the user stream, so there's no reason 
to duplicate the information in their stream.


Each item is essentially going to be an article.  These articles need to 
reside somewhere, either a blog, the wiki, or a custom news app.  The 
enlightenment site has a news feed, but it's fairly simplistic.  It 
would be nice to have something that can separate the streams 
(announcements, users, developers) and tag articles.  The wiki could 
potentially be used, but wiki's are not particularly good at storing 
transient articles nor tagging them.  These articles are useful for a 
year maybe, but in time they become obsolete.  A blog system really 
makes the most sense to me.


Once you have a blog application, I don't see the need for Twitter.  
Essentially, each tweet is like the RSS summary to an article that 
you're going to link to in the tweet.  Just following the RSS feed of 
the blog has the same effect.  The only benefit I see to twitter is in 
knowing how many followers you have.  But you could just use web 
analytics software on your blog application if you're really interested 
in this.


As far as the Twitter pros.  Articles will always need a short 
effective summary, this is usually less than 140 characters anyway, not 
because the author was limited to some arbitrary number of characters, 
but because the purpose of the summary is to be a short sentence that 
tells readers what is in the article.  Looking at edevel on Twitter, 
there is a lack of professionalism.  There are too many tweets that I'm 
not interested in and many tweets seem more conversational than 
informative.  Although greater accessibility is generally a good thing, 
being able to update the articles from a mobile phone will probably lead 
to lower quality journalism than you would otherwise have.


Last I want to compare some information feeds.  Here's the current 
edevel twitter feed and a few other project feeds I follow:

http://twitter.com/edevel
http://blog.songbirdnest.com/
http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/
http://dojotoolkit.org/taxonomy/term/29/0

Notice that the twitter feed more resembles mailing lists than a good 
source of news and articles.  You'll notice that the songbird site has a 
twitter feed on the right side, which also seems more like a 
conversation between people than a source of news articles.


Maybe the difference is just in the granularity of detail.  At the most 
verbose level you have IRC and the mailing lists.  Some people follow 
these sources and highlight things on twitter.  Other people will follow 
any of the three sources and then write higher quality articles on the 
blog or create wiki pages summarizing changes.  Other articles will come 
from developers who want to summarize and publish their work.


So I'll just conclude by saying that for me and other users/developers 
who want to follow the big events in the enlightenment world Twitter 
doesn't seem to be the right tool.  It shares the problems IRC and the 
mailing lists have of having too much information flyby.  I would prefer 
to follow a source that has a few high quality articles and news updates 
a week.  Not something like twitter with 10 tweets a day.  I don't think 
there's anything wrong with using Twitter as an additional communication 
tool.  I just think that what you really want is a better blog with more 
authors.


If no one has the energy/time to compare blog application tools and 
install one on the website I would be interested in doing so.  Just tell 
me if you want me to look into it.



-Arlo



Michael Jennings wrote:

On Wednesday, 13 May 2009, at 13:38:30 (+0200),
Thomas Gst?dtner wrote:

  

Why waste time and ressources for such a useless service that
doesn't have any advantage over anything else, instead of
maintaining a official information source on e.org with 1) no 140
char limit 2) more professionalism 3) a more official character 4) a
proper standard to get the news (RSS) 5) far better usability.  I
really can't understand why every new hype has to be adopted while
the official sources are hardly maintained at all.



1.  The 140-character limit is fairly soft, and it keeps things to
digestible chunks with links to the details.
2.  If you think there is a lack of professionals on Twitter, you
clearly haven't used it.
3.  It 

Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Gower
2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com:
 Yes there are
 mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig through
 to get at the interesting bits.

Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list?

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Toma
2009/5/14 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com:
 2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com:
 Yes there are
 mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig through
 to get at the interesting bits.

 Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list?

 -Graham

Promotion is part of development.
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Arlo White
Garbage probably wasn't the best word because of the negative connotation.
What I mean is a lot of threads on the mailing list rapidly lose value.  A
thread about a bug that is later fixed is no longer interesting to most
people.  This thread will have little value once a decision is made.  I
didn't mean that these discussions have no value, just that they aren't
useful as a history of major events.  It's too much work for someone
interested in enlightenment to dig through the mailing list archives in
order to learn what's currently going on.  This is a task the wiki or a blog
should solve.

-Arlo


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Toma tomha...@gmail.com wrote:

 2009/5/14 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com:
  2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com:
  Yes there are
  mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig
 through
  to get at the interesting bits.
 
  Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list?
 
  -Graham

 Promotion is part of development.
 -Toma.


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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
2009/5/13 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com:
 Regardless of the method, I think there should be two enlightenment
...snip...
 obsolete.  A blog system really makes the most sense to me.

I agree with you, but I know that most of potentially authors don't have free
time for writing articles

 Once you have a blog application, I don't see the need for Twitter.
  Essentially, each tweet is like the RSS summary to an article that you're
 going to link to in the tweet.  Just following the RSS feed of the blog has
 the same effect.  The only benefit I see to twitter is in knowing how many
 followers you have.  But you could just use web analytics software on your
 blog application if you're really interested in this.

Disagree.
Tweets can't be assumed as RSS feeds, imho. Looks similar, but they are not
the same thing; the flow of information is bidirectional for Twitter, and mono
for a RSS feed. Both can coexist.
And I not started this account to see how many people is following me: i'm
doing that because i think it is a useful tool. It is clear that I see
the number of
follower increasing time by time i'm very happy, because it means that i'm
doing something of interesting.

 in the article.  Looking at edevel on Twitter, there is a lack of
 professionalism.  There are too many tweets that I'm not interested in and
 many tweets seem more conversational than informative.  Although greater

This is important for me.
Can you show me an example of a Twitter account that looks
professional for you.
Reading the stream, it is clear that i'm posting SVN commits,
sometimes not just
a simple cutpaste, and, if i find something of interesting, a thread
in mailing lists.

 Last I want to compare some information feeds.  Here's the current edevel
...snip...
 something like twitter with 10 tweets a day.  I don't think there's anything
 wrong with using Twitter as an additional communication tool.  I just think
 that what you really want is a better blog with more authors.
 If no one has the energy/time to compare blog application tools and install
 one on the website I would be interested in doing so.  Just tell me if you
 want me to look into it.

Agree, again. And imho the real problem is not the leak of blog tool, but
the leak of blog author(s).

Massimiliano

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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread andres
(not answering to anyone in particular)

Planet E should be the enlightenment blog. Currently it is usless because is 
filled with non-enlightenment news but I plan to fix that with some filters 
after finishing the website design, it should be simple enough.

For users, eXchange has a RSS feed for new (or updated) themes and 
applications, there is no need for apps to be finished -in fact, most arent- 
so its the perfect place to announce and distribute beta EFL applications and 
receive feedback. This RSS capability should be displayed more prominently in 
the site.

Other than tat, the more channels of comunication open to the outside world 
the better. We don't know what the preferences of our users -or would be 
users- are. Its not like there is an obligation to keep it open if it becomes 
a burden to mantain. If there is a image concern for professionalism simply 
label them unnoficial and be done with it, users will suscribe anyway.

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 20:20:13 Arlo White wrote:
 Garbage probably wasn't the best word because of the negative connotation.
 What I mean is a lot of threads on the mailing list rapidly lose value.  A
 thread about a bug that is later fixed is no longer interesting to most
 people.  This thread will have little value once a decision is made.  I
 didn't mean that these discussions have no value, just that they aren't
 useful as a history of major events.  It's too much work for someone
 interested in enlightenment to dig through the mailing list archives in
 order to learn what's currently going on.  This is a task the wiki or a
 blog should solve.

 -Arlo

 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Toma tomha...@gmail.com wrote:
  2009/5/14 Graham Gower graham.go...@gmail.com:
   2009/5/14 Arlo White arlo.wh...@gmail.com:
   Yes there are
   mailing lists, but the lists have a lot of garbage you need to dig
 
  through
 
   to get at the interesting bits.
  
   Garbage like this entire thread? Isn't this a development mailing list?
  
   -Graham
 
  Promotion is part of development.
  -Toma.
 
 
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Re: [E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-13 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
my 2 cents on this: I'd not use it as i'm not twitter guy myself, but
I see value in Massimiliano's work and since he is not stopping any
development work on his front, it's just bonus... if raster stops
hacking and starts twittering then I'd find out a FUCKING HUGE STICK
and beat him to death :-)

Go massimilano, go!


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Massimiliano Calamelli
mcalame...@gmail.com wrote:
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 Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
 be integrated into our community.

 The account is here:
 http://www.twitter.com/edevel

 For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
 obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.

 Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
 Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
 The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
 easily; same thing for password.

 What do you think about?

 Ciao

 Massimiliano
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[E-devel] E17 in Twitter...

2009-05-12 Thread Massimiliano Calamelli
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Hello, I'm doing a little test to see how a Twitter account could
be integrated into our community.

The account is here:
http://www.twitter.com/edevel

For it now contains tweets about significative changelogs or mails, but
obviously can contains all of interesting things about E.

Being a test, it isn't not ufficially publicized (just an entry in the
Facebook's fan page), but imho looks good.
The email registered for this account is mine, but this can be changed
easily; same thing for password.

What do you think about?

Ciao

Massimiliano
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