On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com> wrote: > So, my offensive question of the day... > What makes you the person with proper qualifications to do this? Since you > aren't one of the initial commiters, nor a mentor?
No offense taken, I never said I am that person, I even said that I do not wish to be an admin neither due to the controversial nature of my own personal stands on social media (even though I do not intend to carry those stands on an Apache Flex page, being an admin would mean there would be a link to my page and I do not want scare some community members with my own stuff, nor will I ever censure myself on my own page, therefore I might not even be an appropriate admin for the page, even less a creator. The only reason I went through and created the page is because other community members started to create a page and ask on the list how to do things, whoever create and administrate that page should not be asking how to do the most simple administration task on this list, it should be someone who knows Facebook and have experience administrating pages. > Also on the thread, Bertrand [our sponsor] stated that we were not in > violation. Code had been submitted; the project is in it's incubation > stage, and public mailing lists are set up. I got that now, case closed. >> Anyhow, when you create a Facebook page you have to make sure you do >> it right and immediately secure the username for that page, > To get an alias (AKA username) for a page you need a minimum number of > users. It used to be 100. It was eventually lowered to 25. See the third > question here: http://www.facebook.com/help/pages/usernames regarding > requirements. That is not accurate, it depends how many existing pages, the admin activity and history etc.. I guarantee you that I created a page titled "Apache Flex" yesterday and secured the username "apacheflex" and was able to access that page with facebook.com/apacheflex, but since I was told that anything outside of Apache.com is not official and we should no be paranoid and deleted that page and the username is now free for anyone to grab. Whether you can grab it now as I did or after a certain number of likes if entirely up to Facebook algorithm. > I have no idea how you secured a username for the page without 25 fans. I > believe for us to get an alias already in use; we'd have to file some form > of trademark violation report to Facebook. They are not transferable. Well I did and yes you are right, usually when I create a page for a client I will go through the process of having Facebook shut down any page using the same name and transfer all page members to the official one, we can't transfer ownership however my plan was to just keep that page unpublished just so no one can secure the usename and short url, after what I would have deleted the page which would have made the name available again for whoever in charge of the official page to secure. But again, I was told this is overkilled so I deleted it, if anyone secure the Apache Flex username you will have to complain to Facebook and claim copyright violation to get the name back. > I think you made our life more difficult; thanks! I think I did what you should have done in the first place the day Flex project was approved but again I deleted the page so now it's all yours (or whoever is faster)
