This part of the discussion is missing the key point Mike raised:
@eclipse or @eclipseIDE does not make clear whether it will be about
PHP,
Java, or C. Personally, I would not follow an account that mostly
talks
about C or PHP features.
Similar to what Lars said, IMHO it rather needs to be “one twitter
account
per language”.
As Ian said, many projects have their own twitter account.
As a simple solution (w/o requiring too much additional work), I
could
imagine to set up a retweet bot that (i) follows multiple Eclipse
project
accounts and individuals and (ii) simply retweets their tweets -
maybe if
the tweet contains a certain #hashtag.
How is that? Does not require (too much of) a human resource. Is
decentralized / community driven.
This leaves us only with the questions how get the twitter handle
right
for Java, PHP etc. developers.
Cheers,
Marcel
On 01 Feb 2017, at 16:18, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
What does the splash screen say when you start up the IDE? It says
“eclipse”. That’s what the millions of Eclipse users see and
that’s what
they call it. Everyone I run into who’s outside the tight inner
circle of
Eclipse calls it that. Not even IDE, just “Eclipse”.
If you want to change that perception in the market, then come up
with a
new name and spend the proper marketing dollars so that everyone gets
it.
Though at this point it might be easier to rename the Foundation :).
Doug.
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Subject: Re: [ide-dev] An EclipseIDE social media account?
On 02/01/2017 03:27 PM, Mike Milinkovich wrote:
But then surely you must see that calling the Twitter handle
"@EclipseIDE"
is at least confusing --- and probably impolite --- for the other IDE
platforms also hosted by the Eclipse Foundation.
We could ask them.
@Simon @Steve @Tyler @Nedelcho: would an @EclipseIDE Twitter account
focused on the "historical" Eclipse IDE seem impolite to you and your
project?
I personally believe that since other IDEs are properly branded and
were
branded with another name since their inception, the confusion is not
that
strong. Users make fully difference between Che, Dirigible, Orion and
what
they currently still call `Eclipse`.
And even so, an underlying question is how do we remove this
confusion?
Some abilities to properly market the Eclipse IDE are currently stuck
by
the fact that there are other IDEs going on and that `Eclipse IDE`
has
become a too generic name after 10 years. So we would need to name
the
`Eclipse IDE` something else. What would be the procedure to get
started?
Does it require board approval? Are there alternative way to
communicate
about a product that we cannot even name on Twitter without risk of
being
confusing and impolite?
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Eclipse developer for Red Hat Developers
<http://developers.redhat.com/>
My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com/> - My Tweets
<http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>
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