Re: Looking for community managers or enthusiasts!

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

I could go with community enthusiasts if that makes it better.  But their stated role is to help communicate to the general public what are goals and visions are, but also take relevant feedback to the community.

To some extent, yes it does involve sitting on social networks, or popular blogs and magazines.  But more importantly, the idea is to be visible.  It doesn't necessarily mean "happy messages".  We aren't going to apologize for where we are headed.  Not everyone can adapt or change to what we want.  But we do want to address issues or gaps that maybe we have not taken into account.

sri

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:

Hi,

On 11/14/2012 01:07 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:

I'm looking for some charismatic, happy GNOME folks who can help engage
with our community.

We've had a bad run of late with a lot of folks getting the wrong idea
of what we're trying to do.  I'm looking for some talented folks who can
help us engage with the press, on blogs, on mailing lists and explain
our vision.

Send me some email, I want to hear from you!

While I don't quite like the title "community managers", I appreciate the role and the sentiment. Would love to see people working inside and outside the GNOME community to do better at communicating our goals, vision, and work. I would hope that this doesn't end up being "sit on Google+, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and send happy messages to anyone complaining about GNOME".

Cheers,
Dave.

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