On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:38:57PM +0200, Gent Thaçi wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Paul Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When we originally started HS we did so with some trepidation given it > > > was a non-FOSS service. I'm not really shot in the arm by paying for > > > the service, unless we have a clear idea of what that gains us. I > > > briefly surveyed free tools again and have found nothing that offers > > > the "many people share a social presence" features of HS. But do we > > > need their console, analytics, etc. to fulfill some goals? To what > > > extent are we comfortable or willing to pay for a non-FOSS service for > > > marketing purposes? > > > > I'm not comfortable paying for a HootSuite account. I'd prefer to > > look for a FOSS tool, or continue to do what we're doing. > > Although I am not part of the Marketing team I agree with Jared to find FOSS > alternatives. Identi.ca has it's own default option to auto-post to Twitter > and you can even post to identi.ca via email so you can then create an list > which auto-sends emails to identi.ca's email. This doesn't correspond well with your suggestions of ifttt or friendfeed, but regardless I'm in favor of FOSS, as I think most people here are. I'd like to turn those +1 votes into some more concrete solutions, and people who will be willing to put in a few hours on technical bits we might need to implement them. -- Paul -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing