Summary
We need to add social media, chat links, and other links to both our personal profiles and the openstan, bank statement parser, and bank statement anonymiser repos.
In addition, we also need to make sure there are links back from any of these profiles to our github profile and each other.
Tricky thing is deciding exactly what to include, so as to ensure users and contributors can communicate with us and our projects effectively but without having a large surface area of platforms for us to monitor.
Some initial thoughts on platforms:
linkedin: probably links to personal profile and openstan company profiles
twitter / X: would really rather avoid unless this is absolute communication suicide!
bluesky: preferable to X, but not completely sold on this
facebook: find it a very distracting platform so would rather avoid, but clearly has huge reach
matrix: like it for it's openness and configuration options, but possibly only for developer community - how many others would be happy using it?
discord: one of the most popular platforms for support and tends to span techie and non-techie user bases - a possibility
mastadon: interesting alternative to facebook but possibly more prevalent among developers than users
ms teams: great if we get business users, but not an open platform
google meet: most people have google accounts so good coverage
google chat: as above
youtube: using it for hosting tutorial videos, but is it worth exploring posts and other features
others: anything else I haven't thought of
github discussions: great for contributors, but possibly not for general users
others: what haven't I thought of!
We need to cover news and announcements, support, and collaboration. We may need to have meetings to demonstrate and troubleshoot. How do we set this up efficiently?
Are there other similar projects and how do they manage this?
Is there a best practice?
Can we make choices that will still be valid in 5 years time in such a changing field?
Would rather lose a little coverage now, and support new open initiatives, than follow the crowd towards platforms of dwindling relevance.
Lots to think about!
Aim of this issue is to carry out a thorough review of the options and to make some recommendations.
Summary
We need to add social media, chat links, and other links to both our personal profiles and the openstan, bank statement parser, and bank statement anonymiser repos.
In addition, we also need to make sure there are links back from any of these profiles to our github profile and each other.
Tricky thing is deciding exactly what to include, so as to ensure users and contributors can communicate with us and our projects effectively but without having a large surface area of platforms for us to monitor.
Some initial thoughts on platforms:
linkedin: probably links to personal profile and openstan company profiles
twitter / X: would really rather avoid unless this is absolute communication suicide!
bluesky: preferable to X, but not completely sold on this
facebook: find it a very distracting platform so would rather avoid, but clearly has huge reach
matrix: like it for it's openness and configuration options, but possibly only for developer community - how many others would be happy using it?
discord: one of the most popular platforms for support and tends to span techie and non-techie user bases - a possibility
mastadon: interesting alternative to facebook but possibly more prevalent among developers than users
ms teams: great if we get business users, but not an open platform
google meet: most people have google accounts so good coverage
google chat: as above
youtube: using it for hosting tutorial videos, but is it worth exploring posts and other features
others: anything else I haven't thought of
github discussions: great for contributors, but possibly not for general users
others: what haven't I thought of!
We need to cover news and announcements, support, and collaboration. We may need to have meetings to demonstrate and troubleshoot. How do we set this up efficiently?
Are there other similar projects and how do they manage this?
Is there a best practice?
Can we make choices that will still be valid in 5 years time in such a changing field?
Would rather lose a little coverage now, and support new open initiatives, than follow the crowd towards platforms of dwindling relevance.
Lots to think about!
Aim of this issue is to carry out a thorough review of the options and to make some recommendations.