I’ve asked informally about this on IRC.

 

Things should be properly vetted before they are posted on behalf of the organization.

 

In addition, these pages are not updated very well.

 

They’d be a great way to get feedback from users in a less hostile environment (compared to IRC).

 

Also, many things can be put up there such as tutorials, faqs, and guides.

 

Also recent major bugfixes can be announced and people can post questions and be answered by other users on the page.

 

I think Facebook and Twitter would be the 2 most important networks to have an official Fedora page.

 

Thanks,

Dan

 

From: ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of David Ramsey
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 5:26 PM
To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] The use of social networks

 

Found on the Fedora Project. :)

Marketing social networks -

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_social_networks

Found on search.

Fedora on Facebook with 23,222 likes -

http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora/8064650479

Fedora Project on Facebook with 8,389 likes -

http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Project/7670534782

> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:57:31 -0400
> From: jayson.rowe@gmail.com
> To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] The use of social networks
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Kévin Raymond <shaiton@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am not involved in other social things than the Fedora Planet and
> > our mailing lists… So this email is about an idea that I won't resolve
> > by myself :).
> >
> > We just had an IRC discussion about the use of our social network on websites.
> > Couldn't we set up a broadcasting service to publish on our official
> > Facebook, Google+, identi.ca and Twitter pages?
> > Like what is sent through the announce mailing list, or to auto-send
> > announce message about the beta availability, the release day…
> > Also shooting the release notes link would be great, has people still
> > come asking "Is there anybody know where to get the info about the new
> > features and capability of fedora 17?" (just this morning on -docs).
> >
> > There could also be something that I am not aware of..
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Kévin Raymond
> > (shaiton)
> > GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2
> > --
> > ambassadors mailing list
> > ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors
>
> I know there are a couple of G+ pages (not sure if they are 'official'):
> https://plus.google.com/112917221531140868607/posts
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/110514354576121733241/posts
>
> (The first one only seems to have activity on it).
>
> There is also a twitter feed here:
> https://twitter.com/fedora/
>
> I do not know who is responsible for updating to these.
>
> I also just learned of two Facebook groups via Christoph Wickert this morning.
>
> I'm happy to help with these any way I can, if help is needed.
>
> --
> -jayson
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