Hi Tiago,
More publicity sounds good. When we produce new releases, someone other
than the release manager needs to take responsibility for pushing the
news to these additional channels: let's not add more tasks to an
already long list which we're trying to trim.
Thanks,
-Rick
On 2/4/11 7:58 AM, Tiago Espinha wrote:
I forgot to include a link for the page itself:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apache-Derby/173708932674204
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Tiago Espinha <ti...@espinhas.net
<mailto:ti...@espinhas.net>> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not sure if there's a mailing list for which this would be
more appropriate (a dev list seems a bit odd.. but this way I can
reach out to everyone involved) but I wanted to get feedback. I
created a Facebook page for Apache Derby and the main goal for now
would be to attract students for Google Summer of Code. Eventually
we could (maybe unofficially) announce new releases and even
Apache's own mentorate programme there.
It's just that social media is getting really big and it's easier
than ever to get free advertising by using it. Maybe it would also
be a good idea to have a twitter account where we announce this
kind of things? I wouldn't mind taking care of this, and I confess
I jumped the gun a bit with the Facebook page but I'd like to hear
the community's opinion on it. Would we need some kind of ASF
permission to have these extra communication channels?
(Considering we use a "brand" owned by ASF?)
In the end I think we have a lot to gain. If we increase our
dev-base we'll be able to make Derby even better, and based on our
JIRA issues list, it seems to me we could really use extra pairs
of hands...
So what are your thoughts on this? I can delete the Facebook page
if the community doesn't think it's appropriate.
Cheers,
Tiago
