Social Media Working Group (Proposed)

Use social media to promote Apache communities

Status

This WG is just an IDEA. Please come join the conversation about how we might actually do this work, and what work we should do.

What

Use the @apachecommunity Twitter account, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media outlets to promote Apache communities.

Work with projects to better facilitate their own social media outlets, and to share Foundation-wide messaging, where appropriate.

Work with MarkPub to ensure that all of the above is done correctly, and on-message with the rest of the community.

Who

The WG shall create membership criteria that ensure that you're enabling people who can responsibly, consistently, positively and coherently be spokespeople for the ASF. Possibly work with MarkPub to establish some kind of guidelines or certification?

Outlets

• Twitter/X - @apachecommunity
• Facebook

ToDo

• Define what “channels” we will be posting content to
• Determine how we will do authentication/credential sharing, especially for social networks that don't have a concept of shared channel ownership.
• Content plan/process
  • Content acquisition and/or authoring
  • Amplification of other accounts (projects? ASF official? External groups?)
  • Process for people to submit content? Review and approval process.
  • Scheduling, so that it's not chaos
• Fix or replace birthday.pl tool (in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/tools) which generates the list of project birthdays each month