Namecoin Communication Channels

[phelix]

Website
Github
Forum
Wiki

Dev Mailing List (Indolering?)
Pool Op Mailing List (Indolering?)
Bitmessage: Dev/Security List
Alerts Bitmessage List: Outdated https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1524
Announcements Board on the Forum: Outdated https://forum.namecoin.info/viewforum.php?f=19
Bitcointalk:
- Vinced's thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6017 (we have no control over OP)
- News Thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236340.0

Twitter: Outdated (Khal, phelix)
Facebook: (Sudoquai)
Reddit: (?)
Tumblr Blog: (Indolering)
Google+ ???

IMHO we should clean this up and then make it a sticky thread or put it on the wiki/website.

What channels do we really need / want to use?

How to group audiences? Users, Miners, Developers?

In some cases it might be beneficial to have information (e.g. binaries and hashes) on different servers.

[mightbemike]

I'm willing to take on the twitter account, I'm on there all day long most days.

[phelix]

IMHO it is important that we get this sorted out. Indo even started a similar thread:

https://forum.namecoin.info/viewtopic.p ... ead#unread


If nobody objects I will clean out the offtopic posts above.

Edit: Done. Please stay on topic! Create new threads for other topics.

[phelix]

Updated OP. IMHO this list should be reduced and all official channels should be active and up to date.

[indolering]

I say screw the forum announcement threads, I never use them. The older mailing lists are not working and the servers are flagged as spammy.

• Website/blog (pull headlines from tumblr blog which all core-devs have access to)
• Github
• Forum
• Wiki
• Dev Mailing List (core-devs)
• Pool Op Alerts Mailing List (core-devs)
• Bitmessage: Dev/Security List (move to Retroshare ASAP)
• Social (Twitter, facebook, google+) core-devs via shared Hootsuite account, community members through native multi-user functions.

The Google-based lists and Tumblr already have every core developer as a manager (including yourself).

I will share the Hootsuite password with core devs, enabling them to post to Facebook, Twitter, and Google at once. I've already given Facebook admin privileges to Jeremy Rand and editor privileges to various community members.

The majority of the work comes from cross-posting, which is actually fairly rare. As long as we have admins for each platform, then they should manage themselves. Eventually, we will have a NEP and API documentation, but I was planning on switching to Vanilla forums and using it's embedded functionality to try and capture discussion in one system.

For announcements, we could have special tags on posts to Tumblr and have them replicated across social media and mailing lists. Then we would only need to post in one place.

[indolering]

It looks like there is a releases RSS feed:

https://github.com/namecoin/namecoin/releases.atom

Can you include a "what's new" blurb in the release itself? If so, I could code up something that would autopost to the blog, social media accounts, and the alerts mailing list. Then devs wouldn't need to leave Github at all.

I bet you could find something for the forum too.....