Twitter and 4.4

[Stuart Jarvis]

On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:24:12 Andrew Manson wrote:
> Thanks for all the info, although I did know about the RSS ( from the kde
> for windows website ), but the reason why I was asking about twitter is
> because of the granularity and the frequency of that current news feed.
> Twitter is more useful for keeping people updated with the day to day or
> week to week going ons of the project, fills the gap between the big
> announcements and keeps people informed. Right now the RSS only has news in
> it from about 2 months ago and i'm sure that there has been some really
> interesting things happening since then that people would be interested in
> ;)
> 
> In fact how does KDE do with twitter generally? is there any precedent for
> this?
> 
I checked the promo-list archives (had an idea this had come up before) so 
here's a summary of what we have at present:

http://community.kde.org/Promo/Material/social_media - that's all general KDE 
stuff though (as it's on the wiki, that's really for our purposes trying to get 
things organised - once we have it a bit more coherent we should put it on 
kde.org more prominently)

> -Andrew
> 
> PS. stung by the Reply-To problem, sorry for keeping people out of the loop
> 
Are you subscribed to kde-windows? I'm copying you in in case you're not.

cheers,
Stu


> On 11 February 2010 10:19, Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 February 2010 09:54:58 you wrote:
> > > So then there are only separate KDE for Windows devs on twitter but no
> > > Account for the project? Is there a list anywhere of the devs twitter
> > > accounts so that I might follow? ;)
> >
> > Actually, just to clarify I'm not a KDE Windows dev, but do KDE promo
> > stuff and
> > follow the Windows development and mailing list
> >
> > In answer to your question - probably not... I'm pretty new to Twitter so
> > I'm
> > just exploring the possibilities but it would make sense to have some
> > official
> > feeds I think. In the meantime there's the KDE Windows RSS feed
> > http://windows.kde.org/rss.php and Patrick Spendrin's blog
> > http://saroengels.blogspot.com/ which will likely be the first places for
> > release news (other than this list maybe). I just checked and can't find
> > Patrick on Twitter.
> >
> > I'll be (hopefully) putting a release announcement on dot.kde.org too,
> > but that could be a bit after the release.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stu
> >
> > > -Andrew
> > >
> > > On 11 February 2010 09:52, Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 11 February 2010 09:35:53 Carlo wrote:
> > > > > 2010/2/11 Andrew Manson <g.real.ate at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > > > Just wondering if there is a build of 4.4 coming out any time
> > > > > > soon? I'm really looking forward to it!
> > > > >
> > > > > packages should be ready this weekend
> > > > >
> > > > > > Also, on a separate but related note, do you guys have a twitter
> > > >
> > > > account
> > > >
> > > > > > used for news and small updates? I'm just asking because I want
> > > > > > to have instant feedback about when the new release hits the
> > > > > > mirrors
> >
> > ;)
> >
> > > > > I don't have one, but I don't know about the others
> > > >
> > > > I'll make it known when I hear about a release (swjarvis on twitter,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > > I'll
> > > > post to !kde anyway). However, I might be travelling or in a pub when
> >
> > the
> >
> > > > release hits.
> > > >
> > > > Stu
>