Hi,
While Flock is going on, with a little bit of work up front to set a solid / standard direction, I think we could come out of it having some nicely collated & organized posts about the event, photos, as well as better chat experience.
We actually have some data, thanks to Suzanne Hillman, about how Fedorans use social media around Fedora events. She surveyed 141 Fedora contributors across all geos (52.5% EMEA, 28.4% NA, 12.1% APAC, and 7.1% LATAM) and asked about their social media / photo sharing preferences. (24% of respondents were ambassadors.) I'll summarize the findings at the bottom of this email and I'll refer to it as I made suggestions here.
So as suggested earlier [1], we'regoing to give funded attendees blog, video nanny, or photo assignments to cover different Flock sessions. This is as it's been for all Fedora eventswith the trip report requirement, with a minor tweak that we're assigning specifictalks for coverage rather than leaving it open-ended.
Media Proposal: ==============
In order to fulfill the requirement of their assignment, funded attendees should follow these instructions below.
For bloggers / note-takers: -----------------------------------
For those who have been assigned to take notes / transcribe / blog a particular session or sessions, we ask them to maketheir posts in the Fedora community blog, following these instructions:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/
TheFedora Design Team can provide a selection of banners for the articles that can be used, based on whether the article is a transcription / notes of a session or a fully-fleshed out blog post. They can also pull photos from the instagram and Flickr tags below.
We will need editors for the community blog to vet the posts and push them through each evening. It might be nice to have Fedora magazine summary posts each evening as well.
For photographers: --------------------------
Those who have agreed to take on a photo assignment should agree to release their photos under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license.
They should post photos either to instagram or Flickr (most popular pure photo sharing apps). On instagram, they will put the tag #flockcod posts. On Flickr, they will join a group (we'll set it up asopen join) and posttheir photos to that group, also tagging them with #flockcod.
(Note that Facebook was popular for sharing photos too, but I have direct experience with trying to get photos out via their API and unless a very specific and finnicky workflow is followed, they are irretrievable. So I'm recommending avoiding that.)
For video nannies: -------------------------
Those who have agreed to video nanny one or more sessions must, at the end of the session:
1) Rename the recording file to reflect the title of the session. 2) Upload the video of that session to the Fedora Project YouTube channel.
Logistically, I'm not 100% sure of the best workflow here - we could have the session laptops logged in to the account?
Also, some sessions (eg hackfests) won't make sense to record. Should we ask on the CFP side if the session makes sense to record or not?
Communication Proposal =====================
Chat ------
By far IRC is the most widely-used chat medium, so if there is one official one, that should be it.
#fedora-flock - main channel
Room channels:
#fedora-flock-capecod #fedora-flock-barnstable #fedora-flock-grand-i #fedora-flock-grand-ii #fedora-flock-osterville #fedora-flock-centerville #fedora-flock-orleans
Signal was 2nd place; if we can set up a bridge between #fedora-flock on IRC and a telegram channel that would be good.
Mailing Lists ----------------- We need to set up: - flock-attendees-2017@lists.fpo - flock-speakers-2017@lists.fpo
And we need to subscribe all registrants to flock-attendees and all speakers to flock-speakers. We might want to send out an announcement email every morning for attendees and let them know it's coming so they'll check. We could also post a link to the morning announcements on the website?
Ok below is the research I mentioned.
Cheers, ~m
Research Findings Summary =======================
- 78% of respondents use social media to read, post, or comment about Fedora.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS -------------------------------------
To read about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular socialmedia platformswere:
1) Twitter (99 respondents) (this was also the most frequently-used by far) 2) Facebook (50 respondents) 3) Google Plus (45 respondents) 4) Reddit (37 respondents)
CHAT APPLICATIONS -----------------------------
To read about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular chat apps were:
1) IRC (84 respondents) 2) Telegram (44 respondents) 3) Google Hangouts (25 respondents) 4) Whatsapp (17 respondents)
PHOTO SHARING -----------------------
77.3% of all respondents use photo sharing platforms for photos relating to Fedora or Fedora events.
To *view* photos about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular applications / platforms were:
1) Facebook (21 respondents) 2) Twitter (19respondents) 3) Google Plus (12respondents) 4) Flickr (10 respondents) 5) Instagram (10 respondents)
To *post* or *comment on* photos about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular applications / platforms were:
1) Twitter (19 respondents) 2) Facebook (18 respondents) 3)Google Plus (10 respondents) 4) Instagram (9 respondents) 5) Flickr (8 respondents)
[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/flock-planning@lists.fedorapro...