[Qgis-psc] Usage of official Facebook account

[Tim Sutton]

What? No heated debate about using a non-free proprietary platform that harvests user data for the creation of a Borg Army? Something is wrong here :-)

Hahah only kidding, sounds great to me and thanks to Maryanne for volunteering for this - I think she will do an absolutely awesome job of it!


Regards

Tim

> On 22 Mar 2019, at 03:56, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I think we can disable messages, or at least add an auto message to it.  I can look into it today.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> fully agreed, excellent idea. From my experience, it will be difficult to make it clear this is not another support channel. Better be very clear not to create frustrations.
> Cheers.
> 
> Il 22 marzo 2019 03:35:02 CET, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com <mailto:madmanwoo at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
> I'm ok adding  Maryanne as a admin as well if she would like.   We can have a few admins like the Twitter account to keep stop it being owned by single user.
> 
> There is a lot of users on there and it's a good way to at least share the latest news. (Not for doing support)
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:31 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi PSC,
> 
> I wanted to kickstart some discussion regarding the official QGIS
> Facebook accounts.
> 
> We've got some 28k+ likes on the QGIS official Facebook page, yet the
> page is hardly utilised. That's a considerable audience that we're not
> capitalizing on -- and it's a different audience to that which we
> reach via the standard mailing lists and Twitter account (for
> reference, the QGIS Twitter account is quite active).
> 
> Recently we reached out to Nathan to ask if he could reshare some
> notifications about North Road's current Layout plotting crowdfunding.
> He offered admin access to Maryanne (North Road's marketing guru) to
> allow her to resurrect the account and start pushing content on it.
> 
> We've had a quick chat about this, and while Maryanne is more than
> happy to take over the account and use it to reshare QGIS discussions
> which occur on Facebook/mirror Twitter announcements/etc, we don't
> want there to be any conflict of interest here if she uses it to post
> commercial content (e.g. advertising crowd funding campaigns, whether
> they are North Road related or not).
> 
> Obviously if someone impartial from the community wants to take over
> this account and actively utilise it then that's great... but if
> no-one is interested in doing this, is it OK if Maryanne gets access
> rights AND can we have official approval that sharing commercial
> content via the channel is acceptable?*
> 
> Nyall
> 
> * again, I'm referring to notices about campaigns from ALL commercial
> organisations, not solely North Road
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