Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Facebook

[Mostafa Alizadeh]

Hi Martin, 

I must explain more about the page in order to avoid these questions. However, I'm gonna clarify. 

First of all, I didn't know you have similar page of GNURadio on Facebook before and I don't know why the people didn't pay attention to that. 

Secondly, I don't want to distract you from the mailing list, as you said there is the most attention. This is enough to have only one location for discussions and here is the best as I found. I just want to propagate GNURadio ideas and its news etc. (as a mean to attract more people).

Thirdly, as you mentioned, I have to do much on this page to make it up to date from time to time. However, I may do not have enough time to do so. Currently I'm looking for someone to help me on this.

Fourthly, I called the page "GNURadio" as it is. I also care about its verification. This is page isn't verified by Facebook. If it was verified by an original publisher, a sign of blue tick must be appeared next to the name of the  page, take a look at ted page.

I know if the page isn't designed carefully and interesting, it would harm the picture of GNURadio too.

For your questions:

# I just can decide on my status quo and now I can say that I handle the page but the future isn't deterministic for me. 

# I believe in that this page will absolutely attract more people to GNURadio.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Marcus Müller <address@hidden> wrote:

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Hi,

as a single, small, sometimes lost, developer, I ask you:
please don't open side channels on your own.

A lot of us have been around this mailing list for a very long time, and we try to keep information as concentrated as possible.  Already now we see a lot of people following tutorials from more-or-less dubious, most of the time totally outdated websites.

We should really try to keep gnuradio.org the official page for all information on GNU Radio.
I don't see why anyone of the official core team should try to update a facebook page with release info etc, if there is no question that this information can and should be found in gnuradio.org; I think you might have gone a little to far promising constant updates.

Also, there's a lively community around GNU Radio, and things like conference announcements never go unnoticed on the discuss-gnuradio mailing list, so I really don't see the demand for a more "communicative" platform. In fact, the mailing list, the #gnuradio on freenode, the github page, the gnuradio.org wiki and of course the regular hangouts as much as conferences and hackfests are so much communication that it actually amounts to a fair amount of work to keep up with all the information exchanged.

All in all, facebook is really a terrible platform for discussion if you want to make information well-searchable, well documented, self-organized; the average time until a post on the mailing list goes answered is in the order of hours; as a lot of the community earns its money with software radio related occupations, I doubt the frequency of qualified answers on facebook would ever be as high as on the mailing list.

Greetings,
Marcus

On 20.05.2014 07:05, Mostafa Alizadeh wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> To be more communicative, we'v designed a page of "GNURadio" on facebook
>
> https://www.facebook.com/gnuradiodeveloper
>
> This page specially is for GNURadio developers who are following GNURadio
> ecosystem:
> ? new releases of GNURadio,
> ? new products of GNURadio,
> ? GNURadio conferences and events,
> ? new GNURadio-related projects
> and anything else related to GNURadio.
>
> We're looking for administrators for helping us on this page. Every
> volunteer Mail me.
>
> best,
> Mostafa
>
>
>

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