[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu-us-ca Digest, Vol 133, Issue 3

Sun Oct 7 16:04:54 UTC 2018

I'm really excited to once again see interest around getting these
resources going. Thanks everyone :)

That said, as the one who ended up having to manage all of the
resources when volunteers who set them up disappeared, I'd like to see
some kind of agreement around what the team actually wants to share
before running off and creating more accounts. The fact is, all of our
social media accounts are pretty much dead because the team itself is
not hugely active. According to Meetup we have a monthly Ubuntu Hour
in Pasadena, and the Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco is effectively once
a year at this point. Beyond that, we have SCALE in Pasadena as our
Big Annual Event. There is other work being done here and there
related to Ubuntu (like what Partimus.org does in San Francisco) but
it's been pretty detatched from the team.

For reference, we have access to the following, though Twitter is the
only one that's been updated this year (I used it a lot when we were
at SCALE):

http://twitter.com/ubuntu_us_ca
https://www.facebook.com/ubuntu.california/
https://plus.google.com/113937347200810618664

I suggested a sync with Charlie because we'd been having this
discussion, but it's no secret, so here's a quote from the email I
sent in his direction content-wise:

"You can browse the feed of each one to see the other kinds of things
we'd traditionally posted there. Mostly upcoming events (from both our
Meetup[0] and LTP[1] feeds) and major news from the team (leadership
elections, etc)."

[0] https://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-California/

[1] http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california/

"If I had more time, I'd likely expand it to:

1. Sharing details other Linux-focused events in California (Linux
users groups, Linux-focused meetups etc). I'd stick to Linux though,
not general open source (there's TONS of it), unless there's a very
clear tie to Ubuntu itself.

2. Broader Ubuntu community for contribution activities. Release
coming up, and teams doing a call for testing? Documentation team need
help? Snaps team running a new packaging initiative? These aren't
location-specific, but people who follow our accounts are often
interested in getting involved in Ubuntu more broadly.

I've specifically avoided general Ubuntu news. There are lots of
news-focused tech websites with social media that do this MUCH better
than we could ever hope to long term, and I think we'd lose followers
who are specifically interested in hearing news about Ubuntu in
California and contribution opportunities. The exception may be if we
want to announce the releases every six months, but I'd keep that very
limited, and perhaps tie it to an encouraging message to followers to
host an event in their area (I believe the last formal release party
in California was for 16.04 in San Francisco, and it was very poorly
attended, so I stopped doing them)."

Thoughts?
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:56 PM Anna <zeromusmog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that was a pick I made for an Official Ubuntu CA kind of account. If you want to open a personal account instances.social is a great way to find someplace to sign up (maybe you'll end up on my instance ;) ) that's your speed.
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If you are looking for a more open-themed conversational social media experience, we would recommend looking at https://instances.social/ for a more suitable entrance to the fediverse.
>>
>>
>> On 10/06/2018 01:31 AM, Anna wrote:
>>
>> It's pretty easy to get going, the hardest part is picking an instance probably. https://floss.social is one I found that seems primarily focused on FLOSS, which might be a good candidate. Doesn't seem to be any ubuntu-centric ones though.
>>
>> Running a Mastodon server would be pretty cool too, but would necessitate a bit more involvement and considering how to handle who gets accounts, etc. Most Mastodon instances run on Ubuntu (including mine!) so it'd be highly appropriate, but getting everyone in the group sold on the concept and interested in such a thing to make it worth the server cost and admin labor would be the biggest issue I think :)
>>
>> Pretty much all of identi.ca's momentum went into Mastodon, and is picking up way more steam than identi.ca ever did, especially with its focus on fixing a lot of the social problems inherent to platforms like twitter and facebook.
>>
>> I'm personally getting rather passionate about it because it's the first chance I've seen for a break away from closed, corporate networks that subsist off of data mining and, quite literally, misery, into something that is run by individuals and communities for each others' mutual benefit. I used to be extremely active on Twitter but did not realize just how bad and unhealthy it was for me until I got away from it by participating in a... let's call it a much healthier take on the microblogging concept, that isn't 97% anger and hate speech.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:28 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm working with Charlie to get him access to some of our other social
>>> media accounts. Maybe you could work with him to create a Mastodon
>>> account for the team? We had an identi.ca account long ago, but it
>>> fizzled out when the rest of that service did.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anna <zeromusmog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Failing a mastodon server, at least having a presence on mastodon would probably be a good idea, considering it's probably the most promising FLOSS social media project at the moment. I've been really down on that our only social media options are corporate, but there's been a huge uptick in Mastodon usage in the last few months and it's been lively and active to the point where I don't even care about Twitter anymore, which I used to live on.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM Andrew R Gross <andrew at shrad.org> wrote:
>>> >> > Is there an instagram page?
>>> >>
>>> >> There is a Flickr account, but I was the only one who ever used it and
>>> >> it was pretty short-lived https://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-us-ca/
>>> >>
>>> >> Instead, mostly people just take their own photos of events and share
>>> >> them from their own accounts.
>>> >>
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