Hi Stephen, Fully agree with you. However this wasn't in any way by intention. Here's what I been told happened:
The reason here is that the YouTube “Qt Studios” account was (isn’t anymore) linked to the Qt Project Twitter account. The linking had been put in place likely at a time when the Qt Project Twitter account was labeled “Qt by Nokia”. …and when the tweet went out, there was no way to delete it anymore unfortunately. It seems to be this way when something goes out from “non Twitter source”. Cheers, Lars Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com ________________________________ From: "Stephen Kelly" <stephen.ke...@kdab.com> To: "development@qt-project.org" <development@qt-project.org> Sent: October 1, 2012 2:50 PM Subject: [Development] Blurring the lines between Qt-Project and Digia Hi there, https://twitter.com/qtproject/status/251262626682789888 is a tweet from the 'qtproject' twitter account, containing video from Digia on the QtStudios youtube account which amounts to a promotional advert by Digia for 'Qt Commercial'. The video opens and closes with Digia logos etc. This could blur the lines between Digia and the Qt Project. The Qt Project should be where code goes to and where releases come from, but should not have a commercial slant. It is also not clear who is actually doing the communications through qt- project accounts (from the tweet: 'I added a video ...'). The qt-project accounts shouldn't be used as a mouthpiece for qt commercial advertisements and promotional videos. To do so risks the appearance of shilling[1] and blurring the lines between the qt-project and Digia (and therefore weakening the Qt Project and its credibility as a strong open contribution project). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill It may be true that what's good for Qt Commercial is good for Qt Project, but that doesn't make it appropriate for Digia branded materials, promotional videos and advertisements to be promoted 'impartially' or 'anonymously' by qt- project social media accounts. Such things should be promoted by Digia itself instead. According to the bottom-left of qt-project.org, the Qt Project social media accounts are: http://twitter.com/qtproject http://www.youtube.com/user/QtStudios http://www.facebook.com/qtbynokia http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=1531497 It is not obvious who can post from these accounts, and who the people making the posts represent. We should discuss how to change that. Thanks, -- Stephen Kelly <stephen.ke...@kdab.com> | Software Engineer KDAB (Deutschland) GmbH & Co.KG, a KDAB Group Company www.kdab.com<http://www.kdab.com> || Germany +49-30-521325470 || Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090 KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-Independent Software Solutions ** Qt Developer Conference: http://qtconference.kdab.com/ **
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