Re: [ANN] LuaLang looking for a new owner

On 10 October 2013 09:58, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:

Am 10.10.13 10:35, schrieb Pierre Chapuis:

>> Roland you are very good at finding stuff thats going on, maybe you
>> should volunteer...
>
> If Roland does candidate, I support him :)
>
>> also it doesnt have to be just one person.
>
> How do you propose we deal with it if it is not
> just one person?

fwiw, in the NetBSD project, several developers have the twitter account
(I am one of them) and that works quite well. It makes the account more
lively.

I took the approach of trying not to express personal opinions on anything which was either posted by the account or posted from another user for the attention of the account, in fact I would have preferred if no one ever know the person behind the account. In retrospect this seems to have failed but I would warn against making the account too lively. When an account posts too many messages, it is my belief that the account will get ignored more than it does currently.

As for multiple posters to the account, if this is the direction people would like to take then that is fine. I always used a strong password as I did not want the account hijacking and sending spam to followers. I am not sure of the implications of multiple people knowing the password and maybe also the email account, and it's password, it is registered with. I would also be wary of multiple people posting from the account if something objectionable was posted, IANAL but maybe all account posters would be responsible for the actions of one. Just something to get clarification over.

>Please no automated tweets.

A fair majority of the tweets were automated, these include HackerNews and Reddit entries, as well as Lua and LuaJIT announcements. Although some which you may have thought were automated were not actually, instead I presented them in the same way to give uniformity. The same unformity which did not really catch on, when using the #LuaLang hashtag.

> I would not hand it over to the WS 2013 organizers, since they probably

> only use it now, and not after the workshop, which would be sad.

The intention was that the account would be taken over for the period of the Work Shop only and for which I would set a new password which I would then change after the conference. Which would give the ability for a person who is present at the workshop, to easily post snippets and photographs in real time without relying another another person to post if for them.

--Liam