On 05/01/17 21:16, Daniel Dekany wrote:
Thursday, January 5, 2017, 8:20:08 PM, Sharan Foga wrote:
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One thing that could help is to follow the ASF accounts and
re-tweet some of the main ASF ones. For example they have a weekly
news update. Doing things like this will help strengthen the Apache link of the
project.
I don't get this one. If someone is subscribed to the seed of
freemarker, won't (s)he be annoyed if he gets news about ASF that has
nothing to do with FreeMarker? (Yes, it's related because FreeMarker
is at Apache, but you see... it's not helpful for the subscriber.)
I suppose it all depends on who the subscribers are and what you want to
use the account for. I see Twitter as a potential way to attract new
people to the project so by limiting the information to existing people
that are already involved may not make it seem very welcoming for newcomers.
My thoughts on the Apache association is mainly focussed on getting
people to see a link to the Freemarker project and be interested enough
to click it and find out more about it. Another option with Twitter is
that if one of the existing followers / developers does something
interesting then it can be shared. (BTW the committer how-to document
would be a good topic for a tweet!)
In the end it is just a tool that can be used, it just needs to be
tailored to fit whatever Freemarker wants to achieve for the project and
community.
That was also my impression on the OFBiz tweet, as a software
developer. The last is important, that I'm looking at it as a
developer. FreeMarker, unless OFBiz, is mostly only interesting for
them I believe. It doesn't have an UI that a manager type could click
around. It's not a complete end-user product, it's Java library used
internally by other products.
Would you also be interested in blogging too on https://blogs.apache.org/
An example from OFBiz is something like this
https://blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/apache_ofbiz_news_december_2016
Do you mean that the blog would be a monthly news digest mostly?
Yes it could be a monthly news digest or a technical summary of the work
done. Publishing a blog or being active on Twitter shows a wider
audience that the project is alive and active, and we can always
included links to the mailing lists or wiki.
Anyway - we could maybe look at trying to do something over a short
timeframe (like a POC) to see how it works... :-) What do people think?
Thanks
Sharan
Thanks
Sharan
All in all, it would be nice to make some good noise about FreeMarker :-)
Jacopo
[*] https://twitter.com/freemarker
