How to Get access to the @Apache Ofbiz Twitter Account

If you want to get access to the Twitter account, please email private@ofbiz.apache.org. You must be a PMC member to be granted access.

If you only want to post one or two things then you can send the link or details to the @ApacheOfbiz account with a request to tweet it.

Displaying the Twitter Feed

• The ApacheOfbiz twitter feed is displayed on the main project website.
• Will other community members want to also display this feed? (e.g on their own websites????) - TO DO : A question on the mailing list? / FOLLOW UP QUESTION - Which mailing list to use?? (User or Dev??)

Twitter Content

Usage Guidelines - What information can be tweeted? - (NOTE  THAT: Apache Cloudstack has a great page on Social Media Do's and Don'ts that we could use as a template.... Social Media Guidelines and Twitter)

Tweet Languages

• Main language will be English but our community is diverse.
• We have PMC members that speak French, Dutch, Italian - so we can allow relevant tweets in other languages. Jacques Le Roux: seems we will rather use only English, TODO set the rule within PMC

Re-tweeting

• ASF / Linux Foundation
• Companies / Organisations and also individuals ??
• Aim to always use community member individual names where possible (Previously there was a concern regarding the marketing of integrator companies -so hopefully this will resolve these concerns)  
• Community and community building related comments

Project related information:

• Releases  and related information (e.g. end of life for a release???)
• Technical information - eg. Groovy update etc?? (or is this too detailed?)
• Committer / PMC role information
• Contributor / Contribution information
• Events - ApacheCon / OFBiz Meetups / Other Opensource events where Community or project will be present

Documentation

• Release of new documentation
• Tutorials
• How to

OFBiz News

• When someone selects OFBiz for implementation
• When someone goes live with an OFBiz related implementation (Need to be careful here that OFBiz itself gets recognition)

Community

• Community Days
• Colloborative work ??? (e.g when 2 or more community members work together on something???)
• Humour / Jokes

What we won't tweet?

• Bad language
• False information (How to verify what is true or not???): Means a level of validation / verification required. If not sure then don't tweet? (TO DO: Check other Apache Projects for any guidelines. Sharan Foga  Apache Cloudstack has some we could use - see above.)