Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote:
 I think this is a good idea, but perhaps most LyX developers may not
 want to waste much time on SNS like the our generation :) LyX does
 have a Google+ page:
 https://plus.google.com/u/0/110001097193208807095/about but as you can
 see, it is not actively maintained, and I have no idea who is behind
 that account.

Thanks, Yihui. I didn't know about this.

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
lasgout...@lyx.org wrote:
 Don't we have one already ?

 JMarc

You are right. I searched mainly on LyX's mailing lists and only
briefly on twitter. I clearly didn't search hard enough. It is here:
https://twitter.com/LyX_org
It currently has 7 tweets and 10 followers.

In this case, can I have the login and password?

And would anyone oppose my retweeting of tweets that I think are appropriate?

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Pavel Sanda 
Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 In this case, can I have the login and password?

Vincent is behind the twitter idea. I can forward you some
exchange about this (didn't went through devel list).
Pavel

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 In this case, can I have the login and password?

 Vincent is behind the twitter idea. I can forward you some
 exchange about this (didn't went through devel list).
 Pavel

Thanks Pavel, I got it. I like his ideas and motivation. He does not
mention retweeting other people's LyX posts. Vincent what do you think
of that?

I suppose a downside is that it seems a little less serious, but I
don't know if serious is what we want to aim for. When I think about
it, I have trouble thinking about what extra information a LyX is
great! tweet gives, but for some reason I think that's what many
people would like to see. This is a complete guess and I'm pretty new
to Twitter but I've observed similar (almost informationless)
retweeting behavior a lot. And I like it but don't a good reason for
why.

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta 
On 25/10/13 01:38, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
 Any interest in having a LyX twitter account? I would like to set one
 up but would only do so if others would find it interesting.

So, it seems it was already there. I just subscribed...

 -- occasionally show off a new feature (Tomasso want to share your LyX
 chat idea?)

Indeed, I'm used to advertise through SNs:

  https://www.facebook.com/tommaso.cucinotta.9
  http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21327534

As I'm new to Twitter, I'm not sure how best to make use of the LyX
twitter account. If it were FB or a LinkedIn group, then I would post
my feature ad to the corresponding wall or group discussion. In
Twitter, I just sent it to @LyX_org,

  https://twitter.com/tomcucinotta

but likely someone from LyX might like to re-tweet, in case it's deemed
interesting :-)

T.

 -- ask for feedback (I imagine there are people who do not want to
 subscribe to the lyx-users list but would be happy to give feedback on
 something if they are following LyX)
 -- retweet some things. This would give people a way of following LyX
 tweets that don't have to do with luxury (this is what lyx means in
 Swedish and is the most common use of the hashtag).
 
 Here are some selected relevant tweets with #lyx:
 
 https://twitter.com/u203d/status/392915523870019584
 It feels good to finally be free from the tyranny of #PowerPoint (and
 clones) now that I create my slides with #Lyx and the beamer class.
 
 https://twitter.com/hawaii_666/status/391210995789471744
 Just showed #lyx to a colleague and realized again how awesome LaTeX
 is! #documents #latex #canbesoeasyandnice http://www.lyx.org/
 
 https://twitter.com/stevepowell99/status/390915966340583424
 Why does #MSWord corrupt docs when it crashes? #libreoffice and #lyx
 don't. Just happened again #groan
 
 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/369143689341194241
 Create #LaTeX documents graphically with #LyX
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-lyx/index.html?ca=drs
 …- been using it for over a decade, it's still improving.
 
 I didn't find any previous discussion about a LyX twitter account.
 
 Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Yihui Xie  wrote:
> I think this is a good idea, but perhaps most LyX developers may not
> want to waste much time on SNS like the our generation :) LyX does
> have a Google+ page:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/110001097193208807095/about but as you can
> see, it is not actively maintained, and I have no idea who is behind
> that account.

Thanks, Yihui. I didn't know about this.

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
 wrote:
> Don't we have one already ?
>
> JMarc

You are right. I searched mainly on LyX's mailing lists and only
briefly on twitter. I clearly didn't search hard enough. It is here:
https://twitter.com/LyX_org
It currently has 7 tweets and 10 followers.

In this case, can I have the login and password?

And would anyone oppose my retweeting of tweets that I think are appropriate?

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Pavel Sanda 
Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> In this case, can I have the login and password?

Vincent is behind the twitter idea. I can forward you some
exchange about this (didn't went through devel list).
Pavel

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Scott Kostyshak 
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> In this case, can I have the login and password?
>
> Vincent is behind the twitter idea. I can forward you some
> exchange about this (didn't went through devel list).
> Pavel

Thanks Pavel, I got it. I like his ideas and motivation. He does not
mention retweeting other people's LyX posts. Vincent what do you think
of that?

I suppose a downside is that it seems a little less serious, but I
don't know if serious is what we want to aim for. When I think about
it, I have trouble thinking about what extra information a "LyX is
great!" tweet gives, but for some reason I think that's what many
people would like to see. This is a complete guess and I'm pretty new
to Twitter but I've observed similar (almost informationless)
retweeting behavior a lot. And I like it but don't a good reason for
why.

Scott

Re: LyX twitter account ?

2013-10-25 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta 
On 25/10/13 01:38, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> Any interest in having a LyX twitter account? I would like to set one
> up but would only do so if others would find it interesting.

So, it seems it was already there. I just subscribed...

> -- occasionally show off a new feature (Tomasso want to share your LyX
> chat idea?)

Indeed, I'm used to advertise through SNs:

  https://www.facebook.com/tommaso.cucinotta.9
  http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21327534

As I'm new to Twitter, I'm not sure how best to make use of the LyX
twitter account. If it were FB or a LinkedIn group, then I would post
my feature "ad" to the corresponding wall or group discussion. In
Twitter, I just sent it to @LyX_org,

  https://twitter.com/tomcucinotta

but likely someone from LyX might like to re-tweet, in case it's deemed
interesting :-)

T.

> -- ask for feedback (I imagine there are people who do not want to
> subscribe to the lyx-users list but would be happy to give feedback on
> something if they are following LyX)
> -- retweet some things. This would give people a way of following LyX
> tweets that don't have to do with luxury (this is what "lyx" means in
> Swedish and is the most common use of the hashtag).
> 
> Here are some selected relevant tweets with #lyx:
> 
> https://twitter.com/u203d/status/392915523870019584
> It feels good to finally be free from the tyranny of #PowerPoint (and
> clones) now that I create my slides with #Lyx and the beamer class.
> 
> https://twitter.com/hawaii_666/status/391210995789471744
> Just showed #lyx to a colleague and realized again how awesome LaTeX
> is! #documents #latex #canbesoeasyandnice http://www.lyx.org/
> 
> https://twitter.com/stevepowell99/status/390915966340583424
> Why does #MSWord corrupt docs when it crashes? #libreoffice and #lyx
> don't. Just happened again #groan
> 
> https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/369143689341194241
> Create #LaTeX documents graphically with #LyX
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-lyx/index.html?ca=drs
> …- been using it for over a decade, it's still improving.
> 
> I didn't find any previous discussion about a LyX twitter account.
> 
> Scott
>