[Qgis-psc] Usage of official Facebook account

Giovanni Manghi giovanni.manghi at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 04:11:23 PDT 2019


Hi all,

so how this would work?

Someone interested could ask to share a particular posts (from its own
FB/Twitter/etc)? Is not clear to me what would be acceptable and what not.

thanks for clarifying!

cheers

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On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:05 AM Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> wrote:

> huh ....... I can step in here and rant about Facebook ;-)
>
> No, seriously. As long as I don't have to do it (because I don't have an
> official Facebook account (I know, they track me anyway)), I am fine if
> someone else wants to do it.
>
> Greetings,
> Andreas
>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 08:31, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> 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> 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>
>>>> 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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>>>>
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>>
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