Re: ofbiz twitter account was: Re: svn commit: r918926 - in /ofbiz/site: images/follow_us-b.png index.html

Posted by Scott Gray-2 on
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Reverted in r919688, I am in no way comfortable with you running a twitter feed and pretending that it represents the OFBiz project regardless of your intentions.  If you want to do something like this then get it approved by the PMC first.

Regards
Scott

On 5/03/2010, at 12:26 AM, Hans Bakker wrote:

> Ok, here an answer for all the questions about this twitter account.
>
> First of all, as i already said, i was just making promotion for OFBiz,
> to the casual end user who want to see what is happening and may later
> get involved.
> Do i do this for free? No, i want something back, only that
> Antwebsystems is mentioned somewhere doing this service. As long as i do
> it alone i think this is pretty reasonable.
>
> Is this an Antwebsystems account?
> No it is not. The antwebsystems account is
> http://twitter.com/ofbiz_support 
> and my personal account is:
> http://twitter.com/hansbak .
>
> If you go to http://antwebsystems.com you will see these tweets at the
> right hand side of the website. I think this would also be nice for the
> OFBiz website, of course the OFBiz account only :-)
>
> This is my contribution to the Apache OFBiz project. It has nothing to
> do with the apache foundation, it is just OFBiz.
>
> Will it be accessible to all contributors?
> Sure, running a professional twitter account takes time and effort. Any
> contributor interested helping here is very welcome, as long we keep the
> target user in mind: the potential end user.
>
> Hopefully this clears up everything and we can return back to what we
> are doing best: promote and improve OFBiz.
>
> Regards,
> Hans.
>
> P.S. If somebody is interested helping let me know i will give you
> access if you are a committer. If you are a contributor send your tweets
> to @apache_ofbiz and i will retweet them if they fit the target
> audience.
>
> --
> Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
>