[CentOS-devel] [Introduction] Social Media Policies for CentOS

Thu Aug 13 16:42:40 UTC 2015
Jason Brooks <jbrooks at redhat.com>


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcin Dulak" <marcin.dulak at gmail.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at 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 at 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they do get out of date fairly quickly, and blog comments are a poor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:
> > >>
> > >> 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?
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> >
> > *As just one example of I am sure of many.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Brian
> >
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