Re: Need Leadership

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 6/29/08, Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net> wrote:
> On 29.06.2008 14:32, Anders Feder wrote:
>
> > søn, 29 06 2008 kl. 02:33 -0500, skrev Diego Escalante Urrelo:
> > > What if we hack a twitter like thing for GNOME where we can drop a
> > > line about what are we doing now or we did this week in GNOME, or
> > > maybe just a random thought.
> >
> > I think this is a cool idea, especially if developers would also drop
> > comments on their random ideas, questions, notes etc. For instance, a
> > developer could ask how to use a particular API, or share an idea for a
> > new project and others could add suggestions, or note the lack of a
> > function or feature in a particular module, which someone then might
> > pick up on and implement etc.
> >
>
>  It seems to me you're asking for someone to post Gnome IRC channel
>  logs...
>

Well there's a bunch of reasons why twitter is twitter and irc is irc.
For our purposes, that twitter is accesible from anywhere where you
have a browser, that messages are broadcasted to all the interested
people, among other things, makes it totally different than irc.

For the proposed idea, the thing with twitter would be:
 - anybody can browse to twitter.com/gnomos and read what we are
thinking/doing in 160 chars or less, miscelanea included
 - it does not require anything else than a browser, no shell for a
bot, no irc client, or grepping logs for "somebody joined", "somebody
quit"
 - 160 chars as a limit is a nice idea imo.

Of course, no one would be forced to anything, if someone doesn't have
twitter or doesn't want to create one, then fine, no problem. After
all this is just an informal way of keeping track of what people does.