Hello to all:
My name is Brian Proffitt, a social media and community analyst with Red Hat. The main focus of my work is to assist free and open source software projects with which Red Hat is involved to improve their social media planning and execution.
CentOS has a broad and diverse social media implementation, which I believe could be improved using a coordinated set of guidelines regarding content discovery and delivery, as well as engagement with the different audiences found in various social media channels.
To that end, I would like to begin a conversation here with interested members of the CentOS community and its Moderators Group to see what resources are needed, what improvements could be made, and how CentOS' social media could become an even more powerful tool within and without the CentOS community.
The information attached is a first-step proposal to get such a conversation started. I look forward to the discussion!
Peace, Brian Proffitt
So,
A couple questions here:
1. Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt, KDE,etc to review/compare against?
2. Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in participating?
On 08/11/2015 11:23 AM, Brian Proffitt wrote:
Hello to all:
My name is Brian Proffitt, a social media and community analyst with Red Hat. The main focus of my work is to assist free and open source software projects with which Red Hat is involved to improve their social media planning and execution.
CentOS has a broad and diverse social media implementation, which I believe could be improved using a coordinated set of guidelines regarding content discovery and delivery, as well as engagement with the different audiences found in various social media channels.
To that end, I would like to begin a conversation here with interested members of the CentOS community and its Moderators Group to see what resources are needed, what improvements could be made, and how CentOS' social media could become an even more powerful tool within and without the CentOS community.
The information attached is a first-step proposal to get such a conversation started. I look forward to the discussion!
Peace, Brian Proffitt
My main question is how do we make the project more influential by using this channel.
Carl
On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
So,
A couple questions here:
- Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,
KDE,etc to review/compare against?
- Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in
participating?
On 08/11/2015 11:23 AM, Brian Proffitt wrote:
Hello to all:
My name is Brian Proffitt, a social media and community analyst with Red Hat. The main focus of my work is to assist free and open source software projects with which Red Hat is involved to improve their social media planning and execution.
CentOS has a broad and diverse social media implementation, which I believe could be improved using a coordinated set of guidelines regarding content discovery and delivery, as well as engagement with the different audiences found in various social media channels.
To that end, I would like to begin a conversation here with interested members of the CentOS community and its Moderators Group to see what resources are needed, what improvements could be made, and how CentOS' social media could become an even more powerful tool within and without the CentOS community.
The information attached is a first-step proposal to get such a conversation started. I look forward to the discussion!
Peace, Brian Proffitt
On 08/12/2015 10:37 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
My main question is how do we make the project more influential by using this channel.
Carl
My ideas on this are pretty straightforward: establish CentOS and its community as a "thought leader" in a given aspect of technology by using the social media channels to amplify that. Say the Board (or social media committee or whatever ends up happening) decides CentOS should be recognized as a leader in cloud-based servers*, because that's where the community's expertise lies.
In that scenario, when stories/blogs appear in the ether about cloud-based servers, members of the community could point to it on the CentOS social media channels and perhaps make a comment. Over time, the CentOS community will become recognized for this expertise, and people will seek out CentOS community members for advice/help in this area and CentOS the software becomes more attractive for the same reasons.
This should not be done as a firehose of aggregated content, and there should be original content on a CentOS blog/blog network to back this up.
That is the approach I find works best for influence. Other suggestions/comments welcome.
On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
So,
A couple questions here:
- Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,
KDE,etc to review/compare against?
- Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in
participating?
[snip]
*As just one example of I am sure of many.
Peace, Brian
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Brian Proffitt bkp@redhat.com wrote:
On 08/12/2015 10:37 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
My main question is how do we make the project more influential by using this channel.
Carl
My ideas on this are pretty straightforward: establish CentOS and its community as a "thought leader" in a given aspect of technology by using the social media channels to amplify that. Say the Board (or social media committee or whatever ends up happening) decides CentOS should be recognized as a leader in cloud-based servers*, because that's where the community's expertise lies.
In that scenario, when stories/blogs appear in the ether about cloud-based servers, members of the community could point to it on the CentOS social media channels and perhaps make a comment. Over time, the CentOS community will become recognized for this expertise, and people will seek out CentOS community members for advice/help in this area and CentOS the software becomes more attractive for the same reasons.
This should not be done as a firehose of aggregated content, and there should be original content on a CentOS blog/blog network to back this up.
another idea: i would like to see links to github/bitbucket repos with CentOS based runnable code tested automatically on one of the public CI systems instead of blogs. In my opinion blogs make horrible things to open software: provide usually incorrect or quickly obsolete information. One does not become an expert by commenting on something. CentOS community experts could contribute to make such testable projects better.
Best regards,
Marcin
That is the approach I find works best for influence. Other suggestions/comments welcome.
On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
So,
A couple questions here:
- Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,
KDE,etc to review/compare against?
- Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in
participating?
[snip]
*As just one example of I am sure of many.
Peace, Brian
--
Principal Community Analyst Open Source and Standards bkp@redhat.com +1.574.383.9BKP _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
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From: "Marcin Dulak" marcin.dulak@gmail.com To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." centos-devel@centos.org Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 7:56:22 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] [Introduction] Social Media Policies for CentOS
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Brian Proffitt bkp@redhat.com wrote:
On 08/12/2015 10:37 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
My main question is how do we make the project more influential by using this channel.
Carl
My ideas on this are pretty straightforward: establish CentOS and its community as a "thought leader" in a given aspect of technology by using the social media channels to amplify that. Say the Board (or social media committee or whatever ends up happening) decides CentOS should be recognized as a leader in cloud-based servers*, because that's where the community's expertise lies.
In that scenario, when stories/blogs appear in the ether about cloud-based servers, members of the community could point to it on the CentOS social media channels and perhaps make a comment. Over time, the CentOS community will become recognized for this expertise, and people will seek out CentOS community members for advice/help in this area and CentOS the software becomes more attractive for the same reasons.
This should not be done as a firehose of aggregated content, and there should be original content on a CentOS blog/blog network to back this up.
another idea: i would like to see links to github/bitbucket repos with CentOS based runnable code tested automatically on one of the public CI systems instead of blogs. In my opinion blogs make horrible things to open software: provide usually incorrect or quickly obsolete information. One does not become an expert by commenting on something. CentOS community experts could contribute to make such testable projects better.
Good point! I've been thinking about starting to include a place to file bugs and a Vagrantfile for automation to the howtos I write -- they do get out of date fairly quickly, and blog comments are a poor place for issue tracking.
Jason
Best regards,
Marcin
That is the approach I find works best for influence. Other suggestions/comments welcome.
On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
So,
A couple questions here:
- Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,
KDE,etc to review/compare against?
- Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in
participating?
[snip]
*As just one example of I am sure of many.
Peace, Brian
--
Principal Community Analyst Open Source and Standards bkp@redhat.com +1.574.383.9BKP _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
On 08/12/2015 08:27 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
So,
A couple questions here:
- Are there equivalent guidelines for projects like Fedora, oVirt,
KDE,etc to review/compare against?
There are, though I believe they are in a bit of bang-up shape. Here is a quick list of what I found thus far:
KDE: https://community.kde.org/Promo/People/social_media, (which has a link to a great guide at http://www.lydiapintscher.de/whitepapers/Social_Media_Guide_For_Free_Softwar...)
openSUSE: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts
Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_social_networks#Proposed_strategy
(Fedora may be a bit out of date; I am currently talking to their board and some of this seems like it's not been implemented.)
Projects like oVirt, which are sadly not as organization-diverse as CentOS and Fedora, are not terribly applicable examples in this case, since their social policies are really in line with the sponsoring organization (in oVirt's case, Red Hat). I want to foster a policy that's in line with CentOS' governance.
- Question for the community-at-large, who else would be interested in
participating?
On 08/11/2015 11:23 AM, Brian Proffitt wrote:
[snip]
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