[opensuse-marketing] Microblogging / Laconica
Hi all, Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors. Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs. Thoughts? Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> wrote:
Hi all,
Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors.
Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker
not sure about having our own server. might be cool to do that, but where are the resources for that? the microblogging though is a great idea. We need it to be searchable by google and the likes though. Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 01/05/2009 12:57 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:
not sure about having our own server. might be cool to do that, but where are the resources for that? the microblogging though is a great idea. We need it to be searchable by google and the likes though.
We found the resources to put up lizards.opensuse.org, I'm sure we would be able to address this if we decided it's important enough. Would developers use it, though? Would we be better off finding some way to aggregate the Twitter/Identi.ca feeds of openSUSE developers? (I wonder if we could do a Planet SuSE with microblog feeds?) Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors.
Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker
Why don't we get a list together of openSUSE developer's twitters, blogs, etc., and aggregate them somehow? That could be an interesting idea. Or just keep a list of links to the various blogs. Anybody think this sounds worth it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 01/05/2009 01:10 PM, Sync wrote:
Why don't we get a list together of openSUSE developer's twitters, blogs, etc., and aggregate them somehow? That could be an interesting idea. Or just keep a list of links to the various blogs. Anybody think this sounds worth it?
I think that's fine too. I'm not picky about the how so much as the final result. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
I like the idea of an openSUSE microblogger more. That would be a way to bring someone that never used a microblog to consider it. 2009/1/5 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@novell.com>:
On 01/05/2009 01:10 PM, Sync wrote:
Why don't we get a list together of openSUSE developer's twitters, blogs, etc., and aggregate them somehow? That could be an interesting idea. Or just keep a list of links to the various blogs. Anybody think this sounds worth it?
I think that's fine too. I'm not picky about the how so much as the final result.
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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Gabriel Franco wrote:
I like the idea of an openSUSE microblogger more. That would be a way to bring someone that never used a microblog to consider it.
2009/1/5 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@novell.com>:
On 01/05/2009 01:10 PM, Sync wrote:
Why don't we get a list together of openSUSE developer's twitters, blogs, etc., and aggregate them somehow? That could be an interesting idea. Or just keep a list of links to the various blogs. Anybody think this sounds worth it?
I think that's fine too. I'm not picky about the how so much as the final result.
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Such as myself :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors.
Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker
Why don't we get a list together of openSUSE developer's twitters, blogs, etc., and aggregate them somehow? That could be an interesting idea. Or just keep a list of links to the various blogs. Anybody think this sounds worth it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:03 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
Over the break, someone made the suggestion that we might want to consider setting up a Laconica server for openSUSE members / contributors.
Any thoughts? I know that many people on the list are already using Twitter / Identi.ca. We really need to encourage as much blogging / online activity around openSUSE as possible, and it seems to me that we *might* be able to encourage openSUSE contributors to do something under 140 characters where we have trouble convincing them to post longer blogs.
Thoughts?
Best,
Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager jzb@zonker.net http://zonker.opensuse.org/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/
Hmmm, this sounds familiar :D I spoke to the author of laconi.ca a while ago about the possibility of migrating current users of identi.ca to an "own" instance of laconi.ca (For those that don't know, laconi.ca is the software that powers identi.ca); and it is possible, potentially some fiddling but nothing too strenuous. The one issue i see with doing this is that users of current services are most likely to be resistive to migrating due to the hassle that this entails. I'm all for it, but I'm just playing devil's advocate. Many people are already comfy with the likes of Twitter etc, and will need a solid reason as to why they should migrate. One advantage we do have is that there are a multitude of clients that enable one to send messages to multiple services at the same time, although I only know of Gwibber which can send to an "own" instance of laconi.ca. Hopefully it won't be too hard a sell. I'm sure we could ask Riggwelter if he could setup a microblogging aggregate as part of planetsuse, maybe /moon or /micro. This would certainly be the quickest option and one with the least impact. Although this will require a list collating in advance. Both having the posts aggregated and having our own service will enable indexing by all the search engines. My preference is for our own service, but we have to take into account the maintenance of the server (mostly software side of things) and this is the resource that is potentially hard to come by. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa, openSUSE Member: FunkyPenguin. openSUSE: Get It, Discover It, Create It at http://www.opensuse.org awafaa@opensuse.org | http://www.wafaa.eu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 01/05/2009 02:40 PM, Andrew Wafaa wrote:
I'm sure we could ask Riggwelter if he could setup a microblogging aggregate as part of planetsuse, maybe /moon or /micro. This would certainly be the quickest option and one with the least impact. Although this will require a list collating in advance.
Both having the posts aggregated and having our own service will enable indexing by all the search engines. My preference is for our own service, but we have to take into account the maintenance of the server (mostly software side of things) and this is the resource that is potentially hard to come by.
OK - any other thoughts here? I'm thinking aggregation is probably the best / least complex solution. While I think the custom service is a great idea, I agree that the upkeep is one more thing we don't necessarily need to take on -- but encouraging microblogging & aggregating it are important. Best, Zonker -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
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