---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com Date: Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:22 PM Subject: ILU - India Linux Users - New Facebook IRC To: ILUG-C ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in, The Linux-Delhi mailing list < ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org>, iitdlug iitdlug@googlegroups.com, glug-meerut@googlegroups.com, Indian FOSS Community Network list < network@lists.fosscom.in>
Hey, Facebook is making communities - Lots of Linux users are now interacting on facebook - Please Join and have a facebook IRC - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_123580221032826&ap=1 Lets discuss how we can use this new platform for Linux adaptation and promotion purpose
On 24 October 2010 04:53, Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:
Hey, Facebook is making communities - Lots of Linux users are now interacting on facebook - Please Join and have a facebook IRC - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_123580221032826&ap=1 Lets discuss how we can use this new platform for Linux adaptation and promotion purpose
why facebook? why not open diaspora?
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Sarfaraz Kazi sarzkazi@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 October 2010 04:53, Narendra Sisodiya narendra@narendrasisodiya.com wrote:
Hey, Facebook is making communities - Lots of Linux users are now interacting on facebook - Please Join and have a facebook IRC - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_123580221032826&ap=1 Lets discuss how we can use this new platform for Linux adaptation and promotion purpose
why facebook? why not open diaspora?
See, its not yet another mailing list or group or something.. this is group chat feature , its name is ILU and not ILUG..in written format it mean Indian GNU/Linux User -- To make the title catchy, 'G' is silent.. There is no rules, it is just a facebook group,, facebook group chat helped me to locate lot many gnu/linux users -- this is just for promotion and discussion...we are not replacing traditional IRC but this might a good bridge to bring facebook user to IRC when they got habbitial to such group chat for Linux.. Within 6 hour of creation of this group, 256 user joined it and discussed a lot... Almost 5-6 user came to know about the word 'Linux' we also got first spam post at 4th hour.. one problem was also discussed.. other discussion was about naming of group/ its logo etc... Overall we observed a huge response from facebook user who can now chat on Linux Topic... we will certainly improve.. Moreover there is no admin atall,,, anybody can add another buddy... so its is something different and will certainly help a lot for FOSS adaptation..
We already have ning community or orkut community or twitter list or so on.. these are platform specific feature which need not be discussed in such manner... We can anyway have multiplicity.. I use Twitter and identica but most twitter, If I create a list on twitter about FOSS people then one may always say like create on identica and no twitter.... So this is not a general purpose things....
In nutshell - this is just a FOSS promotion activity and nothing like a mission or mailing list.. Hope facebook will add more feature then it will become more useful... to outsider also..
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