[Insight] Identi.ca hookup

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 09:24:48AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Here is some use case information for the Identi.ca feed hookup:
> 
> * I'm interested in @Fedora status messages.
> 
>   RIGHT NOW: I don't know where Fedora's Identi.ca feed is.  But if I
>   take a wild guess and use http://identi.ca/fedora fortunately that's
>   the right one.[1]
> 
>   SHINY FUTURE: On the Insight page there's an easy to see block that
>   says Fedora Speaks! with easy links to the Identi.ca and Twitter
>   feeds.  The Twitter feed is de-emphasized a bit, which encourages me
>   to look at Identi.ca if I don't know what it is.  But fortunately
>   Fedora respects the fact that I'm already on Twitter so I can easily
>   follow them, whichever I decide to use.
> 
>   WIN: Tiny/medium
> 
>   EFFORT: Small, just an RSS feed and a bit of appropriate graphics
>   and hyperlinks in a block.
> 
> * I'm a member of the Fedora Marketing subteam that works on social
>   networking stuff, and I want to put a message on our Identi.ca and
>   Twitter feeds.
> 
>   RIGHT NOW: I share the account password with lots of people.  (That
>   works OK, but it worries me that someone might get access to my
>   data.)  I visit our identi.ca page, log in, and set a status.  The
>   status automatically echoes to Twitter too.
> 
>   SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice for "Set
>   Identi.ca/Twitter status".  When I select it, I'm prompted for a
>   140-character maximum message.  When I select Forward, the system
>   asks me to confirm the content.  Once I select Confirm, the status
>   is posted to Identi.ca and then echoes automatically to Twitter via
>   Identi.ca's built-in functionality.
> 
>   WIN: Medium/huge
> 
>   EFFORT: May be small, since the 100% all-FOSS brdcst.it service can
>   take an RSS feed of status from anywhere and post it out to other
>   services such as Identi.ca.
> 
> * I'm a member of the Fedora Marketing subteam that works on social
>   networking stuff, and I want to reply to an Identi.ca or Twitter
>   user.
> 
>   RIGHT NOW: (see shared password above, then...)  I visit either
>   Identi.ca or Twitter and click a link to find out if @fedora has
>   been mentioned.  Then I reply in the WebUI to reply to the message.
> 
>   SHINY FUTURE: I login to Insight, and there's a menu choice to see
>   mentions of @fedora on Identi.ca/Twitter.  When I select one, I have
>   the option to reply to the message using the appropriate service, as
>   above.

Forgot this piece:

    WIN: Medium

    EFFORT: Probably substantial. Although there are easy ways to
    broadcast out and recapture feeds, it's getting harder to pull in
    site-specific stuff like mentions.  (No incentive to provide this
    in the case of Twitter, where this is part of the value of the
    service.)


> * * *
> [1] Leaving aside the question of whether our feeds should show up on
>     the fp.o home page.
> 
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