On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 21:38 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2012-09-08 21:36, Nelson Marques wrote:
News sites like heise.de, lwn.net, i.e. tech sites, are a more prominent place, and also target the right audience, that is, people with at least a minimal understanding and interest in computers.
In the place where I work, there's over 800 developers, I would gladly claim that the vast majority has G+ and Facebook, and nearly no one has lwn.net subscriptions[...]
openSUSE announcements are for free, even on LWN :)
If the majority has G+, all is good, isn't it?
Nelson's original post here was not about which social network we should be using, but abut why one conference got more attention on a particular network than the other conference. You've turned this thread into a discussion on which network is better for all to use. The fact is, it doesn't matter all that much about which one to use. All have their validity. And it is impossible to measure "majority" because there isn't a specific headcount of how many people exists in the community and how many exist outside of the community. On Facebook, the openSUSE Page has over 4,100 members and the openSUSE Group has over 6,700 members. This makes Facebook relevant regardless of who is on what network. These are our official openSUSE pages. There's a number of other unofficial openSUSE pages on Facebook that also has thousands total aggregate members. A significant number of registrations for openSUSE Summit come from the Facebook event invitation. That cannot be ignored. Good marketing tries to cover all the bases, not just a preferred one. Yes there are many who do not like Facebook and therefore use Google+. The same situation exists for Twitter vs. Identi.ca. That doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore one network over another. That simply makes for plain marketing nonsense. Nelson's original point in the first post still stands: We should give the Conference equal attention on Facebook as we do for the Summit. And to that, I say, give the Conference team time to set this up. They will in due time. Any discussion about whether we should give more attention to one network versus the other is silly and simply a waste of time and opportunity. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org