> On the other hand, with my ConCom hat on I would probably respond along the > lines of "it's worth considering places like Xing, but we will never reach > all of the possible social networks/event announcement lists/event feeds > etc. We should encourage all people interested in the ASF to publicise our > events for us in these places."
I think this is a good thing to have great ads with a very low cost. I don't think it is necessary to use them all. In germany probably Xing, Facebook and Twitter is most used from the social tools. I guess in the US LinkedIn replaces Xing in this list. These four will already have a good effect. >From administration perspective, how is this done. In Xing groups you can add more than one moderator. Facebook allows Pages with multiple moderators too. So I guess we have some volunteers (the streetteam ;-)) for each network to fill the actual content and a small set of group who are overseeing this activities. Anyway, a central place for our events would also be good. On the website there is a place for conferences, but I was not aware about the Dinner in Berlin, even when I live in germany myself. I would have expected there is a link from the main page to some kind of calendar. All events on this calendar are allowed to be publicised to the networks, maybe. Christian
