[TYPO3-about] community continuous and interactive communication

[Steffen Gebert]

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Hi Ben,

I find it important that TYPO3 is (more) active in Social Networks
(don't care if FB or G+).

What I like - and what I thought of doing it on my own for TYPO3 a loong
time ago - is the "This week in CyanogenMod", which gives a very brief
overview over the work done from the developer's perspective.

I personally somehow find the Community Reports useless. Maybe that I
know most of the information, which can be read in there - so it might
be more helpful for others. But esp. because they appear so seldom and
late, it's a thing which could be improved.

Kind regards
Steffen

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[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/this-week-in-cm-sep-13-2013

Steffen Gebert
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On 9/15/13 9:19 PM, Ben van 't Ende wrote:
> Heyla Community,
> 
> https://plus.google.com/116640019850178099390/posts/1CUAM5CoN3W
> 
> In a post I recently did on G+ (link above) I raised the question on
> what you would want to hear from the community or from me as community
> manager. I really like G+ for several reasons. It has several advantages
> to FB and Twitter. There are several things that are impossible with
> these social media. What I want to achieve is to have a better
> interaction with the community and both from me to the community, vice
> versa and also interactivity for the community itself. G+ seems to hold
> all possibilities with the community feature. We have some 850 community
> members on G+. The fact that it is Google and not on our infrastructure
> speaks against using it in the opinion of quite some people, 
> summarising this.
> 
> I am enthusiastic nonetheless about the feedback I got. It is great to
> get feedback and when feedback is positive it is even better and can
> even make ones day ;) Even if you are not on Google you can still read
> the whole thread, so please have a go at it. The people that gave
> feedback on G+ mentioned wanting to be informed about teams, what
> community members are thinking about and having aggregation of several
> TYPO3 resources. Rasmus mentioned 'more frequent and more loose updates
> - yet in a bit longer texts than on Twitter', which I feel resonates
> with the TYPO3 community. I feel we can provide more transparency if we
> are able to communicate more in this way. Long articles are not the way
> to go any more and it seems people also do not have the patience to read
> through those.
> As I said in the G+ post we discussed interactivity of typo3.org
> extensively at the last typo3.org code sprint we had at the dkd offices
> in Frankfurt. Two interactive features like a contact point on each page
> (team leader, community manager, board member, general info address) and
> a feedback form are not far from being finished, so to speak.
> That still leaves the question how we should provide this interactivity
> for our community, if at all. As typo3.org is our information hub it
> seems the only option to do it there. You are currently reading this on
> forum.typo3.org that is a connection to our mailing-lists. It is great
> this connection is there as it makes our mailing-lists visible to the
> outside world and searchable. Even-though these forums provide good
> functionality they do not provide the interactivity we are so familiar
> with these days. The current commenting on typo3.org is as basic as it
> gets without notification etc.
> There will be a first trial integrating Disqus on docs.typo3.org if I
> understood that correctly. The disadvantage of Disqus is that it is not
> on our infra-structure. There is tool we discussed at the typo3.org code
> sprint called Discourse (discourse.org) which claims to be a modern,
> sustainable, fully open-source Internet discussion platform both from a
> technology standpoint and a sociology standpoint. That sounds perfect.
> Ubuntu is doing a test run with it and the adoption rate seems high.
> Even though we can host that on our own infra-structure and it is Open
> Source, it's beta nature might be a disadvantage and that might also go
> for the fact that it is not PHP. Another alternative is creating it
> ourselves, but that has the disadvantage that that will take some time.
> Please think about it for a moment and give feedback to these
> communication topics. 
> * Do you think there needs to be more interactivity or is it ok like it
> is currently?
> * Do you have an opinion on what tools would be appropriate?
> * What kind of information would you like to get from the community?
> * What would you like to hear from a community manager perspective or
> from other perspectives?
> * Is this a good place to communicate about the TYPO3 community, if not
> what would be most ideal?
> 
> Your feedback is appreciated. Also keep in mind that the TYPO3 community
> needs you!
> 
> Thanks Ben
> 
> 
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