On Thu April 12 2012 16:46:36 Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

> As some of you may or may not know, there exists a YaST fan page on

> Facebook. We created this about a year ago, however we don't have much

> activity on it.

> http://www.facebook.com/pages/YaST/150698461670267

>

>

> Watching this mailing list, there is clearly a lot of things going on in

> YaST development.

You are right, there is a lot of YaST development in progress. Some locations are are well-established and contain announcements and discussions: lizards[1], planet suse[2] and the mailing list[3], just to mention a few.

I'm not sure why the facebook page hasn't become more accepted. Perhaps facebook's reputation in terms of data privacy[4] isn't fully compatible with the attitude of some open source community members. Maybe some authors don't want to limit their posts to a small audience who has a facebook account, but want to reach the whole open source community. Just guessing.

I personally favor centrally arranged information, it makes life easier because you have to search one location only.

> It would be helpful if someone from the YaST team

> would send periodic updates to this FB page.

>

> Currently, none of the admins on this page are directly from the YaST

> team. I can add any one of you to become an admin to help maintain this

> page. Just let me know your FB profile.

>

> Bryen M Yunashko

> openSUSE Project

Cheers,

Thomas

1: http://lizards.opensuse.org

2: http://planet.opensuse.org/global

3: http://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel

4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Privacy_concerns

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