On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:24 AM Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 11:20 PM Niels Basjes <ni...@basjes.nl> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Given the recent events around twitter I had this crazy idea: > > What if the ASF would run their own Mastodon instance under the > apache.org > > domain? > > > > Primarily this would make it possible for all projects to have a clean > > account that can be used for project announcements (i.e. usable by PMCs > ?) > > I expect this to also make it quite easy to archive all communication via > > this route. > > Like: > > > > - @a...@apache.org > > - @fl...@apache.org > > > > Second (I consider this to be optional) it would allow all > > committers/pmcs/... to have a clean ASF relatable point of communication. > > In my case > > > > - @nielsbas...@apache.org > > > > I have NO idea how easy/hard/expensive such a thing is at the scale of > the > > ASF. > > I just wanted to drop the idea here so it can be discussed (and then > either > > be accepted or rejected). > > And therein lies the rub -- I think it will be a reasonable impact on > our infra team (Greg CCed for further comments) and as such will have > to be justified... > > ...'cuz the only justification I have is that (and perhaps similar to > yours) "it would be really cool to have it" ;-) > > It could give provenance to a set of social media handles for legitimate Apache Foundation members, validating representation and preventing imposters. Not sure how much that's needed but I have seen some discussion on these lists about this in relation to Twitter, Slack, etc. Peter Hunsberger Thanks, > Roman, > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
