Hey all I was sitting here thinking about things and I came up with an idea that sounded, at least in my head, like a good one. There has been a boom in things like twitter and brainbird and social networking setups in general. I was wondering if the project or anyone would be interested in setting up a status.net server specifically for the CentOS project ?
Why? you ask, well here are some of my reasons.
1) a central hub for all things centos, updates, wiki updates various messages from the dev team and whatever else
2) We could create groups much like in irc centos, social, devs, and many others
3) another outlet to get questions answered besides forums mailing lists or irc.
4) Quick collaboration between parties interested in CentOS
Some other questions would be
Where could we get this hosted ? What would we call it ? (centosuniverse - lame but hey) Would this be viable for the CentOS project ?
I have noticed with brainbird you can go over the 140 character limit which may also be a good idea 140 can limit you in some ways. I also thought this would be a good way to create a community outlet. It is after all easier to post a quick 140 char message about what is going on than to compose a whole email or forum post. I've seen several websites and communities starting to use this as a outlet for their projects.
So the ultimate question is (poor HHG2G reference there) - Would this work and would it be wise to persue this option ? I would volunteer to do the leg work to get things going and help anywhere I can of course. But would others like to collaborate on this as well ?
Here is a link to Status.net
For further reading on the subject of the server side of it anyway.
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 10:42 -0500, lostson wrote:
Hey all I was sitting here thinking about things and I came up with an idea that sounded, at least in my head, like a good one. There has been a boom in things like twitter and brainbird and social networking setups in general. I was wondering if the project or anyone would be interested in setting up a status.net server specifically for the CentOS project ?
Why? you ask, well here are some of my reasons.
a central hub for all things centos, updates, wiki updates various messages from the dev team and whatever else
We could create groups much like in irc centos, social, devs, and many others
another outlet to get questions answered besides forums mailing lists or irc.
Quick collaboration between parties interested in CentOS
Some other questions would be
Where could we get this hosted ? What would we call it ? (centosuniverse - lame but hey) Would this be viable for the CentOS project ?
I have noticed with brainbird you can go over the 140 character limit which may also be a good idea 140 can limit you in some ways. I also thought this would be a good way to create a community outlet. It is after all easier to post a quick 140 char message about what is going on than to compose a whole email or forum post. I've seen several websites and communities starting to use this as a outlet for their projects.
So the ultimate question is (poor HHG2G reference there) - Would this work and would it be wise to persue this option ? I would volunteer to do the leg work to get things going and help anywhere I can of course. But would others like to collaborate on this as well ?
Here is a link to Status.net
For further reading on the subject of the server side of it anyway.
Oh and to add some more if any of you are familiar with Identi, you can tie into things with xmpp and googltalk so you are not limited to using a dedicated app like say a gwibber or choqok.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
This idea might make sense to me if I knew what status.net was about. I went to their page I I still do not know. Dave
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Dave <tdbtdb+centos@gmail.comtdbtdb%2Bcentos@gmail.com
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This idea might make sense to me if I knew what status.net was about. I went to their page I I still do not know. Dave _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
StatusNet is basically an open source version of Twitter that you can deploy and run on a local system.
Matt
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