Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-15 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: There are technical ways to push messages to the popular proprietary social media like facebook and twitter. Therefore you do not loose anyone, but at the same time we can also push a message about free social media, which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-15 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Even other FOSS events in India like the upcoming Python conference, PyCon ( http://in.pycon.org/2011/) is using such venues as Twitter (they have a twitter account!). FOSS.in was also on Twitter (again, with an account! - http://twitter.com/fossdotin). Given these two examples (there might

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-14 Thread Moksh Juneja
Hi, Respect your views on using open platforms. At the same time, I feel strongly we need to use platforms where there users and specially indian users. One small correction, we have not created any Twitter account. We are tracking and encouraging users to use #wci11 as the hashtag for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few users and we encourage this. We'd like to correct the error. warm regards, Pradeep

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Anivar Aravind
I think it is in the advertisement of communication position with foundation posted by Hisham sometimes back On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, just a hashtag - #wci11. This is also being used on identi.ca by a few

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 15:01, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

2011-09-10 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to