Great Idea (I've CC-ed QA because BugZilla is related to them)
On 17 May 2013 12:27, Zeki Bildirici <z...@ozgurlukicin.com> wrote: > Hi, > > You know social media is a very effective channel for getting people's > attention. Also it can be used a regular reminder/ping'er/poke'r for > communities. > > So using the social media's advantages to increase the community's > attention on Ask.LibreOffice.org site and Bugzilla will be good imho. > > We had used this method in Pardus GNU/Linux and it worked. After > asking to Florian for his advice that if is this possible to use this > channels for LibreOffice, i've creaed two twitter accounts. > > The new accounts are: > > LibreOffice Bugzilla: > https://twitter.com/LibreOfficeBugs > > Ask.LibreOffice.org: > https://twitter.com/AskLibreOffice > > I've connected ask site's new question feeds and bugzilla's new bug's > feeds to this accounts. > > The goals of having this accounts are: > > · To keep more attention on questions and bugs > > · Make community contribution process more social > > · To poke/ ping community’s members and asking for the minimum > contribution that can give constantly > > · Spread the questions and bugs to their networks to find answers as > soon as possible which will increase the possibility find the person > whom has the answer > > · Make our ask and bugzilla more open to the community and increase > the number of persons(not regular contributors) > > > Well, there is also reasons under the “What current situation misses” > questions > > · Having lots of bugzilla mails is not for ordinary community members, > people does not want their inbox is filled with bug mails which most > of them are not in interested. But twitter streams are different, it > comes and passes through no rubbish left there. Trying to confirm a > bug is generally a simple work to do, we can involve more people(other > than the regular bugbusters) to have with this feeds. > > · Visiting ask site is not a practical exercise made every time, or > getting feeds from Google Reader is not practiced by everyone, but > most people use social media actively. This means more eyes will be on > ask and bug sites constantly. > > · As said above, having constant attention for this sites are not > possible for passive contributors > > · There is no chance to spread the questions through LibreOffice > related networks. But with this accounts, the followers will generate > a core LibreOffice network which will be feed through this accounts. > > I hope that this accounts will help to decrease the unanswered > questions in the ask site(1.191 questions ~1/3 ) and activate more > members to help triage bugs in bugzilla. > > If you have a twitter account please follow and promote/announce this > accounts. > > Of course the most important thing is the interest of community and > the will to became a part of this wonderful community to make > LibreOffice the best free Office suite ever. > > Best regards, > Zeki > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted