Coordination in social networks

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Arnav Kalra <arnavkalra007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Distrowatch collects all this stuff automatically. Maybe we can just link to
> it.

Distrowatch, unless I'm missing a detail, collects/reposts
announcements from the distributions themselves, and reviews from
mainstream press, but they don't aggregate a lot of the other news
that is reported in the mainstream press (reporting and/or dissection
of decisions, interviews with specific contributors, deep dives into
specific features, etc.) So I don't know that we'd necessarily want to
rely on it as a single point of collection.
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>> I am the person who did it for multiple releases. It eventually got to
>> the point where it was too low of a priority for me to do, when I had
>> multiple jobs (FPL, program manager).
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>> My main gripes with this are:
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>> * OMG, pain in the butt. Seriously.  Wiki tables aren't awesome fun;
>> we are collecting the title, the link, the author, the date (not the
>> date it posted to the list, but the publication date), the language.
>> That's a lot of back and forth between multiple windows of cut and
>> pasting.  Not to sound like a wuss, but when I did these in batches,
>> it would normally take me a number of hours to go through 10-20 posts.
>>
>> * Return on investment. We collect the articles .... and ??? We never
>> did follow-up, except for the instances where someone would say
>> something horribly wrong or incorrect in an article and someone would
>> generally reach out to the author and try to correct them.  Ideally,
>> we'd take the list of people and make sure they were all on a press
>> list for release time, or do something like count the number of news
>> postings we'd get on a release day, and use that as a benchmark for
>> the next release to measure if we were getting more press, less press,
>> etc.  Or identify reasons/causes of attracting press attention,
>> outside of releases, and fine-tune our outreach. But we don't do
>> anything right now, except still the occasional "correct the author's
>> misinformation" type of thing, so going through and manually
>> collecting things is hard.
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>> In my dream universe, I've always wanted to see a simple web tool
>> where someone - instead of cutting/pasting into an email - could
>> cut/paste into a small web app where they could put the title, date,
>> author, etc. and then it would automagically post that in pretty table
>> format to a wiki.  Encouraging people to do the wiki entry on their
>> own when doing an in-the-news posting to the mailing list didn't yield
>> many results, and making it a requirement I suspect would just cut
>> down on the number of notifications we receive.  I am a fan of dead
>> simple and this, while sort of dead simple, assuming you know how to
>> use wiki tables, still sucks in terms of time/window swapping/omg i
>> forgot the extra bracket and it hosed my whole page/omg i closed the
>> window accidentally after entering 4 articles (though this is far less
>> of a problem now with the reopen closed tab thing, but when that
>> wasn't around, omg, I wanted to stab little kittens when I did that).
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>> One other thing to consider is that nowadays, there's a fine line
>> between "news by people who write news articles for news sites" and
>> "random blog posts/reviews of Fedora on personal blogs" - we often mix
>> both of these into this list, and though sometimes they'll qualify as
>> both, or someone's blog post will be so controversial it is news in
>> and of itself... I don't really consider the latter to be a "news"
>> type of thing, though perhaps the collection of reviews on its own
>> might merit some sort of other scrutiny.  I could definitely see
>> someone going through non-news blog reviews and doing a round-up of
>> the most common review points/feedback/perceptions that we are seeing
>> from people, and seeing if there was a way to pass that feedback along
>> somehow (to fesco, or I don't know who.)
>>
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