(Apparently I sent this from the wrong mailbox and it bounced back without me noticing it yesterday. My apologies!) Meeting held on Tuesday 4-Nov-2009 at 14:00 UTC. Present: AJaeger bertnid emcconne_ FunkyPenguin gnokii HeliosReds jbrocmeier michl ruperthorstkoetter shayon suseROCKs wstephenson yaloki AJaeger begins in meeting by yelling "Party!" thus indicating it's a fun channel and group to be with. suseROCKs begins meeting by reminding everyone that 11.2 Final Release is in 9 days and we wish to maximize our use of the Social Networking services to promote openSUSE. jBrockmeier suggests we target 2 or 3 specific networks rather than use just any social network tool out there. suseROCKs suggests Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca and LinkedIn. suseROCKs indicates we need more tweets and re-tweets on Twitter. Seems we are scant in recent days. We should insist that participation on the Marketing Team should include proactive tweeting and retweeting. Shayon says we need more openSUSE users first to create more tweet content. suseROCKs reminds the meeting that we had discussed creating social network user account directories at the openSUSE Conference. AI to Shayon to create these directories. jBrockmeier pointed out that using "Please RT" gets a higher percentage of retweets than just "RT." He also suggests we target influencers such as media persons and people with large accounts and send tweets to them. AI to JBrockmeier from gnokii: Please make your tweets shorter so it is easier for us to retweet. Discussion evolved to what to tweet? How to get content to tweet? Tweets should be interesting. suseROCKs suggests finding a way to get PlanetSUSE to feed to Twitter/Identi.ca to make it easier for all of us to re-tweet good articles. AI to Michl: to find ways to get developers to use microblogging more so we can all retweet more interesting stuff. Bertnid suggested we use cotweet to bring our tweets together. AI to wstephenson: to hold a social-media knowledge sharing session on-site in NUE. emcconne_ indicated he has received successful traffic to his blog as a result of Twitter and re-tweets. Bertnid also brought up use of podcasts, but this wasn't discussed further in the meeting. wstephenson brought attention to PlanetSUSE and asks the group if there is a need for a revamp. Many indicated a desire to streamline (restrict) posts by eliminating Novell PR blogs and non-open source articles (by imposing tag requirements.) Many feel that would make PlanetSUSE more interesting to the Community. It was suggested that a separate PlanetSUSE meeting (hackfest?) be held with Riggwelter (maintainer of PlanetSUSE) that can focus on all of PlanetSUSE ideas and tweaks. AJaeger suggested perhaps changing from PlanetSUSE to planet.opensuse.org Long-term goals of SocNet are to get more interesting content out there and improve the culture of social networking across the full openSUSE community. Short term goals stated by JBrockmeier in preparation for 11.2 release: 1. Everyone on marketing team should be blogging about 11.2 release 2. Get people to go out and help out in forums 3. Outreach to "influencers" 4. Tweet and Re-Tweet things about the release 5. Build sustained attention to openSUSE beyond the release date so people are talking about openSUSE in late November, December, and so on. JBrockmeier also suggests an open week (Getting to know openSUSE) for the first week of December (6-11.) AJaeger concurs it is a good date for open week. AJaeger and suseROCKs briefly discuss the difference between Santa Claus and Hannukah Harry. wstephenson mentions Christmukkah. Those who want to take on specific AI's should sign up for Basecamp website where JBrockmeier has listed project goals for social networking. Those volunteered are: wstephenson AJaeger suseROCKs jbrockmeier shayon Discussion around how to generate topics for articles and tweets. wstephenson suggested "how about area specialists like myself for KDE mail -marketing with a list of twitterable things for their area?" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org