I would point out and clarify I don't want to see any technical
discussion moved off this list and migrating somewhere else -- I don't
think we're at risk of that happening. The FB and g+ pages will serve as
open-ended ads to point back to the group and it's "normal"
communication channels.
With that said, I also am not a big FB fan. I don't even have an account
(and fyi, I won't be joining the group for that reason) :-) However, I
am happy to see those who participate in that social medium putting
forth an effort to reach others in the same medium. In other words, if
your a big ubuntu forums poster, I'd love to see you add a link to
information about the ubuntu qa team in your signature, and perhaps open
threads about it. If your into reddit, post, comment, and upvote QA
stuff. If your a blogger (or even if your not!), consider blogging about
the team and your work on it. If your a ubuntu member, link your blog to
ubuntu planet and other link and blogrolls to increase your exposure. If
your on twitter, follow @ubuntutesting, and tweet about what's going on.
What that doesn't mean is that everyone on the team should rush to make
a FB account and join the group. Rather, anyone active on FB and using
it could consider joining the group to help promote what we do and who
we are. If your not on FB, g+, twitter, or anything that gets setup,
please don't feel obligated to join in that social media in order to
participate. This mailing list remains our primary communication
channel.. If your on the LP team, and subscribed here, your "in". Don't
feel like your missing out because your not on every social medium.
Nicholas
On 08/20/2012 06:33 AM, Gema Gomez wrote:
On 20/08/12 11:26, Phill Whiteside wrote:
there is on Facebook a subtle but important difference between open,
private & hidden. A private group is advertised to all, but requires
acceptance to join. The reason I chose private is that it does reduce
the attacks by spammers. As we all have better things to do than run
around cleaning up after spammers, that is why I chose private.
I didn't know that, Phill, thanks for the info! So anyone can see what's
going on as long as they have a FB user but they need to go through
scrutiny (i.e. deciding if they are spammers) to join, right?
Sounds good.
In any case, I have decided to un-join the group in support of our users
that cannot follow us in FB and my own conviction that it is not the
right thing to do to have technical conversations there. I can spare
myself the advertisement, since I follow things closely on IRC and
mailing anyway.
Thanks,
Gema
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