hi,
in the past, I've announced a Dojo at : * twitter
* facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people )
* Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to centos-announce, but made no real difference )
* IRC
* lwn.net/calendar ( some. not all )
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into the Dojo Organising wiki pages )
Regards
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
hi,
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
Local mailing lists in those cities? We general have some or other group in these cities.
Kushal
On 03/12/2014 09:52 AM, Kushal Das wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
hi,
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
Local mailing lists in those cities? We general have some or other group in these cities.
good idea.
I guess we should also ask the speakers to promote into their own communities.
Also, google+ might be worth hitting
On 12/03/14 10:48, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi,
in the past, I've announced a Dojo at :
facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an
invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people )
- Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to
centos-announce, but made no real difference )
IRC
lwn.net/calendar ( some. not all )
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into the Dojo Organising wiki pages )
Regards
I know you don't like them, but Forums ? :-) For example, the centos-fr mailing list is almost dead, but the fr.centos.org forum gains some traction
I think you should post them on http://www.meetup.com as, at least around here, that seems to be where all the user groups are and where a lot of people go looking for things to do.
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.orgwrote:
hi,
in the past, I've announced a Dojo at :
facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an
invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people )
- Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to
centos-announce, but made no real difference )
IRC
lwn.net/calendar ( some. not all )
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into the Dojo Organising wiki pages )
Regards
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On 03/12/2014 05:18 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
I think you should post them on http://www.meetup.com as, at least around here, that seems to be where all the user groups are and where a lot of people go looking for things to do.
We had the same point come up during discussions at a recent Fedora User meet at Bangalore, India. We decided to continue using the Fedora project pages and mailing lists to announce and track meets, and also use other local mailing lists, IRC channels, and direct contacts.
It appears that meetup.com is fast becoming the brand for organising meetings, but it comes with the risk of getting your brand locked-in to the meetup.com brand. Organising meetings through meetup.com is inevitable for those groups which do not have their own infrastructure, but not so much for those who do. So it is a risk call that you need to take. I would go for the staying free route.
-rejy (rmc)
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org mailto:mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
hi, in the past, I've announced a Dojo at : * twitter * facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people ) * Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to centos-announce, but made no real difference ) * IRC * lwn.net/calendar <http://lwn.net/calendar> ( some. not all ) What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ? ( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into the Dojo Organising wiki pages ) Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 <tel:%2B44-207-0999389> | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh <http://twitter.com/kbsingh> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS-promo mailing list CentOS-promo@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-promo@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo
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On 03/12/2014 05:56 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 03/12/2014 05:18 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
I think you should post them on http://www.meetup.com as, at least around here, that seems to be where all the user groups are and where a lot of people go looking for things to do.
We had the same point come up during discussions at a recent Fedora User meet at Bangalore, India. We decided to continue using the Fedora project pages and mailing lists to announce and track meets, and also use other local mailing lists, IRC channels, and direct contacts.
It appears that meetup.com is fast becoming the brand for organising meetings, but it comes with the risk of getting your brand locked-in to the meetup.com brand. Organising meetings through meetup.com is inevitable for those groups which do not have their own infrastructure, but not so much for those who do. So it is a risk call that you need to take. I would go for the staying free route.
-rejy (rmc)
Doesn't that mean, we shouldn't be using twitter, FB, G+ etc. IMO same rules applies to all web portals, social networking websites.
That being said I am not against metup.com (specially when we are using other social networking platforms). Also I don't see anything wrong with using meetup.com as of now.
Thanks, Lala
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists@karan.org mailto:mail-lists@karan.org> wrote:
hi, in the past, I've announced a Dojo at : * twitter * facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people ) * Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to centos-announce, but made no real difference ) * IRC * lwn.net/calendar <http://lwn.net/calendar> ( some. not all ) What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ? ( maybe we can thrash this thread out here on list, and then build into the Dojo Organising wiki pages ) Regards -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 <tel:%2B44-207-0999389> | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh <http://twitter.com/kbsingh> GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ CentOS-promo mailing list CentOS-promo@centos.org <mailto:CentOS-promo@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo
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On 03/12/2014 09:56 AM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
On 03/12/2014 05:56 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 03/12/2014 05:18 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
I think you should post them on http://www.meetup.com as, at least around here, that seems to be where all the user groups are and where a lot of people go looking for things to do.
We had the same point come up during discussions at a recent Fedora User meet at Bangalore, India. We decided to continue using the Fedora project pages and mailing lists to announce and track meets, and also use other local mailing lists, IRC channels, and direct contacts.
It appears that meetup.com is fast becoming the brand for organising meetings, but it comes with the risk of getting your brand locked-in to the meetup.com brand. Organising meetings through meetup.com is inevitable for those groups which do not have their own infrastructure, but not so much for those who do. So it is a risk call that you need to take. I would go for the staying free route.
-rejy (rmc)
Doesn't that mean, we shouldn't be using twitter, FB, G+ etc. IMO same rules applies to all web portals, social networking websites.
That being said I am not against metup.com (specially when we are using other social networking platforms). Also I don't see anything wrong with using meetup.com as of now.
I think of the proprietary tools similar to how I think of GitHub compares to git.centos.org. We need to have a presence where the users are, but that doesn't mean we're making them the primary or only communication channels.
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On 03/12/2014 04:48 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi,
in the past, I've announced a Dojo at :
facebook ( by creating an event in the centos group and sending an
invite to everyone in the group - currently thats about 7k people )
- Mailing list to the main centos users list ( a few were announced to
centos-announce, but made no real difference )
IRC
lwn.net/calendar ( some. not all )
I've wondered about doing a Meetup.com group for CentOS Dojos. It's harder to do groups that aren't tied to a specific location, and there's a (small) cost involved. The complication is that people assume they can sign up on Meetup.com, but we can't tie them into Eventbrite the way we can with Lanyrd.
We should also reach out to local groups that are related - for example, there are a lot of DevOps and similar groups in / around the Bay Area in California that might add us as a Meetup.
What are the other places we should be announcing at ? is lanyard worth doing as well these days ?
Yeah, absolutely. It's not terribly hard to create a page, and it does get visibility.
Best,
jzb
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 13:02 -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
I've wondered about doing a Meetup.com group for CentOS Dojos. It's harder to do groups that aren't tied to a specific location, and there's a (small) cost involved. The complication is that people assume they can sign up on Meetup.com, but we can't tie them into Eventbrite the way we can with Lanyrd.
Set-up a mail server, Exim for example, and have a closed email group with a web page to automatically manage subscriptions or just use mailman - it runs on Redhat and on Centos :-)
On 03/12/2014 03:28 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 13:02 -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
I've wondered about doing a Meetup.com group for CentOS Dojos. It's harder to do groups that aren't tied to a specific location, and there's a (small) cost involved. The complication is that people assume they can sign up on Meetup.com, but we can't tie them into Eventbrite the way we can with Lanyrd.
Set-up a mail server, Exim for example, and have a closed email group with a web page to automatically manage subscriptions or just use mailman - it runs on Redhat and on Centos :-)
Sorry, but... what? I'm not sure how this relates to Meetup.com and Dojos. More words needed, I think.
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