Task #2238
closed
organise Reddit AMA (ask me anything) event
Added by Mike Saunders about 7 years ago.
Updated over 6 years ago.
Target version:
Team - Q3/2017
Description
Reddit has "ask me anything" events where people prompt other users to ask them anything about a topic, and provide answers. Italo did one recently for the Italian Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/ItalyInformatica/comments/62jpzj/ciao_italyinformatica_qui_italo_vignoli_ama/
We can do something similar in English: "We are the LibreOffice development community. Ask us anything".
The idea is that people can ask us questions about how LibreOffice is developed, designed, marketed, translated and so forth. Questions can be highly technical or about broad community issues. Redditors can ask us anything, but we don't have to answer. The event typically takes place over a few hours, and we'd want to have some LibreOffice/TDF people around in the evening for when Americans get online after work. It would be good to have:
- At least one board member
- One or two developers
- TDF team members for design, marketing, QA and documentation
- Some community members involved in translation and other projects
Depending on our focus, there are different subreddits where we could hold it:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/ - 245,508 readers, quite technical, and while most will know/use LO it may be a way to bring in new contributors
- https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/ - 43,596 readers, so smaller than /r/linux, but covers a wider range of topics
- https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/ - 5,195,780 readers, so much bigger than the other two, and possibly useful for spreading the word about LO to people who've never used it. Not so good for attracting new contributors though
This will need to be planned well in advance, so I will float the idea on the marketing mailing list first and see how the response is.
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Target version changed from Q2/2017 to Q3/2017
Started planning this with the team. Some notes for future reference:
Ideally we'd have a bunch of people available to answer a diverse range of questions, eg someone from:
- Developers
- TDF Board
- Design
- QA
- Localisation
- Documentation
- Marketing
The team covers most of these, and I'll talk to some developers who're also on the Board to cover the first two. Then, regarding timing:
https://dashboard.laterforreddit.com/analysis/?subreddit=linux&threshold=5
Thursday around midday German time would be best, although we may not reach a large US audience. That's assuming we do it on /r/linux, which IMO is the best place as it's very popular (260,000 readers). Alternatively there's /r/opensource (46,000 readers) which may be a fallback if the /r/linux moderators don't want to host our AMA.
Date: Thursday, September 28 has been suggested, as it'll be our 7th anniversary.
Ideally we'd start around 15:00 Berlin time (09:00 New York) to give Americans chance to ask questions, and keep it going for several hours.
I'll talk to the /r/linux moderators now.
We have approval from a /r/linux moderator, so this can go ahead on September 28.
Cool! Can you poke the board at bod@ with the idea and ask for
availabilities/feedback?
The Document Foundation Redmine wrote on 2017-08-30 at 13:16:
We have approval from a /r/linux moderator, so this can go ahead on
September 28.
Sent reminders to the board (at least one will be available) and team, with some extra pointers about the event.
Meanwhile, here's a draft of the text for the post on /r/linux:
We are The Document Foundation and the LibreOffice community - Ask us Anything!
Hi everyone, we are team and board members of The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project, and we're joined by community members as well. It's TDF's 7th birthday today, and as we get ready for our annual conference and prepare for LibreOffice 6.0 (due early next year), we want to reach out to you, /r/linux!
What do you want to know about LibreOffice - the software and community - and The Document Foundation? Do you have any suggestions or ideas? Let us know in the comments! Of course, as LibreOffice is a FOSS project with developers scratching their own itches, we can't make grand predictions or say exactly when certain features will be implemented. Bit we'll do our best to answer :-)
Here's who we are:
- /u/italovignoli - Marketing & PR
- /u/floeff - Florian Effenberger, Executive Director and a founder of TDF
- /u/htietze - Heiko Tietze, User Experience Consultant
- /u/shinnok - Teodor Mircea Ionita, Developer Mentor (can help if you want to start hacking on LibreOffice)
- /u/The_real_erAck/ - Eike Rathke, TDF Board member and long-time LibreOffice developer
- /u/sgauti - Sophie Gautier, Administrative Assistant and Release Coordinator
- /u/mejmeeks - Deputy Chairman of TDF Board, and long-time LibreOffice developer
- /u/xisco_libre - Xisco Fauli, QA Engineer
- /u/thebearon - QA community member
- /u/themikeosguy - and me, Mike Saunders, Marketing and Community Outreach
...
(Oh and by the way, many of us are also active in /r/libreoffice – it's still a small community, but has doubled in size in the last year.)
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
So the Reddit AMA was a success, with 1523 upvotes, 424 comments, and input from many team, board and community members. The atmosphere was overall very positive. Closing this ticket now, and will do a short write-up on marketing-priv@.
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