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How to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter

• Follow the @ApacheOfbiz account and help re-tweeting the messages from our account
• Follow other members of the OFBiz community and help amplify their tweets about their work on OFBiz and OFBiz related events.
• Watch out for tweets about OFBiz and respond to question and requests for help with OFBiz
• Monitor the #OFBiz, #ofbiz (NOTE: Do we need to standardise on one of these????)  hashtags and use it when you post OFBiz related items
• Keep it positive

How Not to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter

• Do not negatively criticize other communities, people or vendors
• If someone reports a  bad experience with OFBiz, offer help - but don't criticize them for reporting their findings or giving their opinion. Gentle corrections of fact are OK.
• Don't be boring. There are many things linked to OFBiz and you will get more attention on Twitter if you talk about subjects and re-tweet other people's messages about things other than OFBiz.
• Don't use NSFW language

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

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.)