Re: Report from Med@Tel
Hi Vanessa,
nice to read here on this list from you. :-)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:21:07PM -0300, vanecgs@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I think it's a good idea to spread the word on social networks. The way news
> and information spread over them it's very interesting and fast! Maybe it
> won't be the best way to promote the project but it sure represents a nice,
> cool, NEW way of spreading the word and maybe in the future keep people
> interested in DebianMed updated with the latest stuff.
It's good to hear that several people are in principle in favour of
trying new ways to make Debian (Med) more popular.
> I have no idea of how
> it can be done, but I can gladly help you with this.
It is nice that you want to help and I admit my ideas about this are as
well quite limited (considering the fact that I have a twitter/identi.ca
accounts just registered but not sended a single feed) and did not even
created a facebook account. However, as I said we should *try* something
and so some playing around might not harm.
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
> <debian@onerussian.com>wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > http://identi.ca/neurodebian
> > > > http://twitter.com/NeuroDebian
> > > > So it would only be logical to get DebianMed and DebianScience out
> > there.
> >
> > I usually just go to
> > http://identi.ca/neurodebian
> > and Send a new twit
This could be a start: Create such accounts and start with twittering
about newly uploaded packages. To follow the hint on debian-project we
need at the same time to care for building some community - so
mentioning these feeds and related hash tags on the web site + wiki
seems to be needed at least. I would also put this information on
my talks page where I usually direct people to after having a talk.
(Twittering about talks would be logical as well.)
> > for now we do twits manually: indeed it could be automated for those
> > about uploads, and may be with explicit changelog entry providing
> > the actual title, e.g. marking a leading entry in the latest changelog
> > as [twit] (for some uploads we do not bother with twitting since they
> > are more of infrastructure-related, not user oriented who would not
> > care).
I would think that our tasks files give a reasonable set of packages
which are not directly infrastructure related but user oriented. If
we somehow generate recent uploads according to this list of packages
(I have no idea yet how to get the changelog, but the version and
package description comes cheap from UDD) we could do the following:
1. Implement a trigger for the mails from ftpmaster about
"accepted into unstable/new" mails to our list.
2. Lookup if the package creates binary packages which are listed
in a task file.
3. Fetch the information we want to send a feed (whatever this
might be; make sure it will not be too long)
4. Send this automatically
Any more / better ideas are for sure welcome.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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