On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > It's great to see so many volunteers working at setting up social media > accounts for the podling in various cultures. I'm definitely +1 for PPMC > members working on the lists to setup new accounts - presuming that we also > have the volunteers to put some relevant content on them. It sounds like > imacat will do just fine on this one. 8-) > > Given the likely increase in these requests, I hope to have some more > detailed best practices and a few requirements for social media accounts > that are labeled as official; i.e. are run by the project itself (versus the > many other accounts run by individuals about our projects). > > Basic guidelines would include: > > - (P)PMC approval. You're already handling this one here on the lists, > great! > > - PPMC ownership. More than one PPMC member should be able to fully > administer the account. A best practice is to have several PPMC members > being able to post to the account at will, and to have a basic agreement at > keeping the PPMC apprised of the administrator list and allowing other PPMC > members to join as authors or administrators. > > - A note on the homepage of the social media account/page/whatever noting > that it is run my PPMC members from the AOO project. > > - A link back from the AOO site itself to the account. This is a key way > that we can inform users of which social media accounts truly could speak > for the project or not. I.e. any "official" accounts the PPMC approves and > manages should be linked directly to from someplace on our website. Any > other, non-PPMC accounts could also be linked, but on our website we can let > users know which ones we run versus third parties. > > Comments on these guidelines? >
I've been making similar assumptions as well. I was going to write them for the project, along with some further, guidelines, not policy related. (Think of our mailing list guidelines, but translated into a social networking context). But it would be great to get this defined ASF-wide > - Shane > > > On 2012-05-06 11:05 AM, imacat wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to propose setting up three official Apache OpenOffice >> social media accounts for the Taiwan local community: >> >> 1. I would like to set up the Facebook group: >> >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/ooo.tw/ >> >> as the official Apache OpenOffice Taiwan Facebook users' group. It >> is a Facebook group started since 2010/12, and is the current Facebook >> group for our local community. >> >> 2. I would also like to set up an official Apache OpenOffice Taiwan >> Plurk account, too (whether @apacheoo or @apacheootw is not decided >> yet.) Plurk is the most popular micro-blogging service here in Taiwan, >> and is even more active than Facebook. >> >> 3. I do not know if this is appropriate. I would like to set up an >> official Apache OpenOffice Taiwan blog. That may be apacheoo-tw on >> blogspot. It shall contain Apache OpenOffice announcements, as well as >> local news. Please tell me if there are other suggestions on this. >> >> >
