The project is at a stage where getting the word out and building a strong community is a high priority. One approach that might help with this effort is to get more involved with social media. Twitter seems like the obvious place to start and would be a good place to promote releases, conference talks, blog posts, and any Daffodil related information. For other ASF projects, it seems successful and to not be too much of a time drain.
So, I propose that we create the @ApacheDaffodil twitter account. The account will be tied to the [email protected] list, allowing any PMC members to manage the account so that control is not restricted to a single person. Committers and PMC members that would like to contribute can be granted access. Tweetdeck will be used so the credentials do not need to be disseminated. Non-committers are welcome to forward information for consideration to be tweeted under the account if appropriate. Other Apache projects have created a Social Media Guidelines page with some of the above information as well as best practices for what and what not to tweet. I've taken what they have done with minor edits and put it on our wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DAFFODIL/Social+Media+Guidelines Open to discussions, to be decided via lazy consensus. If there is no opposition by next week I'll create the account.
