"Thankful" Hashtag Campaign: #FOSSgiving

[Remy DeCausemaker]

bkp,

We're overdue for a catchup on a variety of things, but I have a
specific request from Fedora magazine.

Today, in our Editorial meeting we discussed how with next week being
the Holiday, we wanted to do something special, but we also wouldn't
have as much time/people/resources to publish major articles.

So what we came up with was a social media campaign to encourage
people to be "Thankful" during Thanksgiving, and tag/shout-out/thank
any Free/Open Source Software people/projects in a tweet.

We would then cherry pick some of the best ones, to be embedded in a
Fedora Magazine Post and published on Thanksgiving.

I got no matches on #FOSSgiving, so that one is my vote, but some
other hashtags we were throwing around were:

#FedoraFriends (some noise)
#Friendora (some noise)
#ThankYouFOSS
#FOSSTgiving
#TYFOSS
#FOSSTY
#ThanksFromFedora
#FedoraThanksyou
#thnxfrmfedora
#FedoraLove (noisy)

Some Possible Tweets Introducing the Hashtag:

Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say #ThankYou this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite Free Software or Open Source Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to be #Thankful this year with #FOSSgiving

Have a favorite #FreeSoftware or #OpenSource Project, Community, or
Contributor? Take a moment to say Thank You this year with #FOSSgiving

Some example tweets could be like:

This #FOSSgiving I'm thankful for @tpope and his #vim plugins that
help me every day to write every line of text in a fraction of the
time

This #FOSSGiving I'm thankful for @inkscape which I use to design and
create at home and at work (and for saving me thousands of dollars!)

I'm cc'ing the mktg, commops, and design list on this thread, so that
we can all work together to help promote this and make it happen.

Thoughts?
--RemyD.

[commops]"Thankful" Hashtag Campaign: #FOSSgiving

[Gabriele Trombini]

Il giorno gio, 19/11/2015 alle 18.36 -0500, Remy DeCausemaker ha
scritto:

Hello,
[snip]> So what we came up with was a social media campaign to
encourage> people to be "Thankful" during Thanksgiving, and tag/shout
-out/thank> any Free/Open Source Software people/projects in a tweet.>
> We would then cherry pick some of the best ones, to be embedded in a>

Fedora Magazine Post and published on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is a pretty American holiday and, whenever I write a post,
I never append any thankful string for Italian (or religious) holidays
as well.
We are an international community, in that way so we should "create"
hashtag for each regional holiday.
Finally I'm not against this kind of things, but if we think is worth
mentioning holidays we should edit a banner or something similar in the
main page of fedmag.
Just my 2 cents.
Gabri
>
> bkp,
>
> We're overdue for a catchup on a variety of things, but I have a
> specific request from Fedora magazine.
>
> Today, in our Editorial meeting we discussed how with next week being
> the Holiday, we wanted to do something special, but we also wouldn't
> have as much time/people/resources to publish major articles.
>
> So what we came up with was a social media campaign to encourage
> people to be "Thankful" during Thanksgiving, and tag/shout-out/thank
> any Free/Open Source Software people/projects in a tweet.

Thanksgiving is a pretty American holiday and, although it's one of the
most important US holiday, in the rest of the world there's no the same
feeling
We are an international community, in that way so we should
"create" hashtag for each regional holiday.
Finally I'm not against this
kind of things, but if we think is worth mentioning holidays we should
edit a banner or something similar in the main page of fedmag.
We should
be thankful each day of the year.
Just my 2 cents.
Gabri

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