I'm really excited to once again see interest around getting these resources going. Thanks everyone :)
That said, as the one who ended up having to manage all of the resources when volunteers who set them up disappeared, I'd like to see some kind of agreement around what the team actually wants to share before running off and creating more accounts. The fact is, all of our social media accounts are pretty much dead because the team itself is not hugely active. According to Meetup we have a monthly Ubuntu Hour in Pasadena, and the Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco is effectively once a year at this point. Beyond that, we have SCALE in Pasadena as our Big Annual Event. There is other work being done here and there related to Ubuntu (like what Partimus.org does in San Francisco) but it's been pretty detatched from the team. For reference, we have access to the following, though Twitter is the only one that's been updated this year (I used it a lot when we were at SCALE): http://twitter.com/ubuntu_us_ca https://www.facebook.com/ubuntu.california/ https://plus.google.com/113937347200810618664 I suggested a sync with Charlie because we'd been having this discussion, but it's no secret, so here's a quote from the email I sent in his direction content-wise: "You can browse the feed of each one to see the other kinds of things we'd traditionally posted there. Mostly upcoming events (from both our Meetup[0] and LTP[1] feeds) and major news from the team (leadership elections, etc)." [0] https://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-California/ [1] http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california/ "If I had more time, I'd likely expand it to: 1. Sharing details other Linux-focused events in California (Linux users groups, Linux-focused meetups etc). I'd stick to Linux though, not general open source (there's TONS of it), unless there's a very clear tie to Ubuntu itself. 2. Broader Ubuntu community for contribution activities. Release coming up, and teams doing a call for testing? Documentation team need help? Snaps team running a new packaging initiative? These aren't location-specific, but people who follow our accounts are often interested in getting involved in Ubuntu more broadly. I've specifically avoided general Ubuntu news. There are lots of news-focused tech websites with social media that do this MUCH better than we could ever hope to long term, and I think we'd lose followers who are specifically interested in hearing news about Ubuntu in California and contribution opportunities. The exception may be if we want to announce the releases every six months, but I'd keep that very limited, and perhaps tie it to an encouraging message to followers to host an event in their area (I believe the last formal release party in California was for 16.04 in San Francisco, and it was very poorly attended, so I stopped doing them)." Thoughts? On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:56 PM Anna <zeromus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that was a pick I made for an Official Ubuntu CA kind of account. If > you want to open a personal account instances.social is a great way to find > someplace to sign up (maybe you'll end up on my instance ;) ) that's your > speed. > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM jim <j...@well.com> wrote: >> >> >> If you are looking for a more open-themed conversational social media >> experience, we would recommend looking at https://instances.social/ for a >> more suitable entrance to the fediverse. >> >> >> On 10/06/2018 01:31 AM, Anna wrote: >> >> It's pretty easy to get going, the hardest part is picking an instance >> probably. https://floss.social is one I found that seems primarily focused >> on FLOSS, which might be a good candidate. Doesn't seem to be any >> ubuntu-centric ones though. >> >> Running a Mastodon server would be pretty cool too, but would necessitate a >> bit more involvement and considering how to handle who gets accounts, etc. >> Most Mastodon instances run on Ubuntu (including mine!) so it'd be highly >> appropriate, but getting everyone in the group sold on the concept and >> interested in such a thing to make it worth the server cost and admin labor >> would be the biggest issue I think :) >> >> Pretty much all of identi.ca's momentum went into Mastodon, and is picking >> up way more steam than identi.ca ever did, especially with its focus on >> fixing a lot of the social problems inherent to platforms like twitter and >> facebook. >> >> I'm personally getting rather passionate about it because it's the first >> chance I've seen for a break away from closed, corporate networks that >> subsist off of data mining and, quite literally, misery, into something that >> is run by individuals and communities for each others' mutual benefit. I >> used to be extremely active on Twitter but did not realize just how bad and >> unhealthy it was for me until I got away from it by participating in a... >> let's call it a much healthier take on the microblogging concept, that isn't >> 97% anger and hate speech. >> >> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:28 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm working with Charlie to get him access to some of our other social >>> media accounts. Maybe you could work with him to create a Mastodon >>> account for the team? We had an identi.ca account long ago, but it >>> fizzled out when the rest of that service did. >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anna <zeromus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Failing a mastodon server, at least having a presence on mastodon would >>> > probably be a good idea, considering it's probably the most promising >>> > FLOSS social media project at the moment. I've been really down on that >>> > our only social media options are corporate, but there's been a huge >>> > uptick in Mastodon usage in the last few months and it's been lively and >>> > active to the point where I don't even care about Twitter anymore, which >>> > I used to live on. >>> > >>> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM Andrew R Gross <and...@shrad.org> wrote: >>> >> > Is there an instagram page? >>> >> >>> >> There is a Flickr account, but I was the only one who ever used it and >>> >> it was pretty short-lived https://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-us-ca/ >>> >> >>> >> Instead, mostly people just take their own photos of events and share >>> >> them from their own accounts. >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >>> >> Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >>> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >>> > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >>> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 >>> >>> -- >>> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >>> Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >> Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
