8:43 p.m.
Hi,
While Flock is going on, with a little bit of work up front to set a
solid / standard direction, I think we could come out of it having some
nicely collated & organized posts about the event, photos, as well as
better chat experience.
We actually have some data, thanks to Suzanne Hillman, about how
Fedorans use social media around Fedora events. She surveyed 141 Fedora
contributors across all geos (52.5% EMEA, 28.4% NA, 12.1% APAC, and 7.1%
LATAM) and asked about their social media / photo sharing preferences.
(24% of respondents were ambassadors.) I'll summarize the findings at
the bottom of this email and I'll refer to it as I made suggestions here.
So as suggested earlier [1], we'regoing to give funded attendees blog,
video nanny, or photo assignments to cover different Flock sessions.
This is as it's been for all Fedora eventswith the trip report
requirement, with a minor tweak that we're assigning specifictalks for
coverage rather than leaving it open-ended.
Media Proposal:
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In order to fulfill the requirement of their assignment, funded
attendees should follow these instructions below.
For bloggers / note-takers:
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For those who have been assigned to take notes / transcribe / blog a
particular session or sessions, we ask them to maketheir posts in the
Fedora community blog, following these instructions:
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/writing-community-blog-article/
TheFedora Design Team can provide a selection of banners for the
articles that can be used, based on whether the article is a
transcription / notes of a session or a fully-fleshed out blog post.
They can also pull photos from the instagram and Flickr tags below.
We will need editors for the community blog to vet the posts and push
them through each evening. It might be nice to have Fedora magazine
summary posts each evening as well.
For photographers:
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Those who have agreed to take on a photo assignment should agree to
release their photos under a CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license.
They should post photos either to instagram or Flickr (most popular pure
photo sharing apps). On instagram, they will put the tag #flockcod
posts. On Flickr, they will join a group (we'll set it up asopen join)
and posttheir photos to that group, also tagging them with #flockcod.
(Note that Facebook was popular for sharing photos too, but I have
direct experience with trying to get photos out via their API and unless
a very specific and finnicky workflow is followed, they are
irretrievable. So I'm recommending avoiding that.)
For video nannies:
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Those who have agreed to video nanny one or more sessions must, at the
end of the session:
1) Rename the recording file to reflect the title of the session.
2) Upload the video of that session to the Fedora Project YouTube channel.
Logistically, I'm not 100% sure of the best workflow here - we could
have the session laptops logged in to the account?
Also, some sessions (eg hackfests) won't make sense to record. Should we
ask on the CFP side if the session makes sense to record or not?
Communication Proposal
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Chat
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By far IRC is the most widely-used chat medium, so if there is one
official one, that should be it.
#fedora-flock - main channel
Room channels:
#fedora-flock-capecod
#fedora-flock-barnstable
#fedora-flock-grand-i
#fedora-flock-grand-ii
#fedora-flock-osterville
#fedora-flock-centerville
#fedora-flock-orleans
Signal was 2nd place; if we can set up a bridge between #fedora-flock on
IRC and a telegram channel that would be good.
Mailing Lists
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We need to set up:
- flock-attendees-2017(a)lists.fpo
- flock-speakers-2017(a)lists.fpo
And we need to subscribe all registrants to flock-attendees and all
speakers to flock-speakers. We might want to send out an announcement
email every morning for attendees and let them know it's coming so
they'll check. We could also post a link to the morning announcements on
the website?
Ok below is the research I mentioned.
Cheers,
~m
Research Findings Summary
=======================
- 78% of respondents use social media to read, post, or comment about
Fedora.
SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
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To read about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular socialmedia
platformswere:
1) Twitter (99 respondents) (this was also the most frequently-used by far)
2) Facebook (50 respondents)
3) Google Plus (45 respondents)
4) Reddit (37 respondents)
CHAT APPLICATIONS
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To read about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular chat apps were:
1) IRC (84 respondents)
2) Telegram (44 respondents)
3) Google Hangouts (25 respondents)
4) Whatsapp (17 respondents)
PHOTO SHARING
-----------------------
77.3% of all respondents use photo sharing platforms for photos relating
to Fedora or Fedora events.
To *view* photos about Fedora or Fedora events, the most popular
applications / platforms were:
1) Facebook (21 respondents)
2) Twitter (19respondents)
3) Google Plus (12respondents)
4) Flickr (10 respondents)
5) Instagram (10 respondents)
To *post* or *comment on* photos about Fedora or Fedora events, the most
popular applications / platforms were:
1) Twitter (19 respondents)
2) Facebook (18 respondents)
3)Google Plus (10 respondents)
4) Instagram (9 respondents)
5) Flickr (8 respondents)
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/flock-planning@lists.fedora...