Outreach Initiative Proposal (Drafting Stage)

I actually did suggest Diaspora to Stephen Fry once on twitter when he was complaining his name was claimed by somebody else on Ello... I also pointed out Diaspora to Russell before, but I guess these people get SO many messages they won't notice untill they hear about it from more then one person. How to go about this?

Also, with Facebook changing its ToS once again, I think there is great momentum around the 1st of January to get people to check out Diaspora. We should use this opportunity.

I'm into it. Please start a new discussion here, so that many of us could join and compose a message from the Loomio community of diasporians.

I have found the wiki page referenced in Sean's original post - it has since moved here:

https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Community_outreach_initiative_proposal

It is a (considerably) expanded version of the outline he posted.

I will add "celebrity endorsements" to the "End Users" section of "Audiences and appealing to them".

@icewater thank you for the wiki link, very useful, found interesting stuff for the FB page (about 40 likes in one day, it's a start.)

@sumimasen Of course 1st of january, this is it! Think of all the people who don't want their creations being property of Facebook: photographs, writers, artists...

Russell Brand is out there signing books all over the place right now, It's shouldn't be too hard for someone in london to get in touch with him and have a chat about this...

Distasteful changes in terms of service, like FB's, present an excellent opportunity to make people aware that alternatives like diaspora* do exist.

If we had a dependable communications network and promotional materials ready to go, we could push them out when event like this happens, along with a "This is the problem, and This is the solution" message.

What about setting up a thunderclap for the 1st of january?
https://www.thunderclap.it/?locale=en

Sure! I don't know if the current changes of ToS are directly related, but the change may generate general interest in the terms. Perhaps the message could include:

• a TL;DR of the unpleasant aspects of FB's ToS
• a link to podupti.me
• a link to diasporafoundation.org

(That third item makes me think alternative diasporafoundation.org "front pages", for different audiences, might be valuable.)

I have not heard of thunderclap before btw.

thinking conceptually .... some form of marketing campaign involving dandelion seeds blown to the four winds would be an authentic representation of our aspirations?

i also think ... especially with the work being done with Debian packaging ... a dedicated D*iaspora OS would be a good route .. though negotiations with existing distro would be easier ... ive just always liked the idea of a default Ruby-heavy distro ... one to highlight the languages feature set and also be a learning tool

Cool, so many brilliant suggestions...let's see some real action now :-) We need to proceed and do what we wanted to, right?

+1 agree ... we need a framework for not only processing the ideas ... but to have an overview of participants capabilities - opportunities - accessibilities ... for the most efficient use of energies .. talks on open source development where the across the mean average it works out that one developer is working on one application ... just is asking for burn out on individuals ... where as many with things to offer feel unconnected to any useful outlet ... the emphasis is on being self propelled ... but an overview with clarity would be handy for many ... btw .. this work is being done ;)

@riderplus I am more than willing to take action, but I'm fairly new on D*, I don't know if there is already some sort of organized group taking care of promotional /marketing activilties? ( If so please point me into the right direction :-)) I just found this loomio site a few days ago :-)

I will look into the thunderclap thing over the weekeind and I will try to think of ways to get Mr. Brands attention. Will start new discussion about that.

Great stuff! :)

I don’t know if there is already some sort of organized group taking care of promotional /marketing activilties?

Well, nothing super organized. I handle the official (english) Facebook and Twitter accounts. @goob does most of the work with the official diaspora* account [email protected]. Various other members are active in many ways, @flaburgan especially in the French community.

But there is nothing more organized than this. If you want something done, it's pretty much those who do, get things done, since we're all volunteers :)

A thunderclap campaign sounds a really cool idea for the 1st of January - let's do it! Now we just need the person who will take charge of getting that set up - @sumimasen ? The draft could be created here (maybe in it's own thread)? Usually for "official" campaigns or larger social posts we work together on the text to finalize it so a good amount of interested people feel it's good to use. Also you can get help on graphics etc from those who can do that.

Regarding this conversation as a whole and outreach things. Personally I would really love if diaspora had some really eager person that would love to do a lot of the social outreach stuff. Someone who would take point in setting up various campaigns, be eager to answer press emails (yes, we get those..), monitor the social media accounts, etc.

But that is another discussion. Just saying, if someone who is really interested in this kind of stuff feels like they want to involve themselves deeply in to the project - introduce yourself and start hanging around at core meetings :)

I'm still following your discussion and very enthusiastic about the thunderclap campaign. Go on!! I'll help to spread the word. I'm very bad using IRC communications so I'll keep reading the forum.

Thanks for the info @jasonrobinson!

@mflo https://www.loomio.org/d/pSiejGsJ/thunderclap-new-year-s-campaign