[Media] [LACTTE] An LA social media experiment - paper.li web newspaper

[Kathy Reid]

Fair points - so how about we leave Paper.Li in for a few months so we 
can gauge demand / see how useful it is for our Members and then if 
there's sufficient demand, someone from Council (presumably yourself) 
can then take ownership of documenting requirements and scope, issuing 
and evaluating a tender? It would be great to have a FOSS alternative, I 
fully agree.

Regards,

Kathy


On 15/08/16 09:09, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 06:12:46AM +1000, Kathy Reid wrote:
>>     So, I'm trying a little bit of a social media experiment with curated
>>     content using a cloud platform called paper.li (it's not open source - but
>>     none of the platforms I could find - Storify etc - are - happy to
>>     entertain F/OSS alternatives if available). Essentially, I feed it a range
>>     of content sources (to do with Linux and open source) and it generates a
>>     new 'edition' every 24 hours then Tweets it at 6am from the
>>     @linuxaustralia twitter account, eg;
> If I understand correctly, it's just a news aggregator that tweets its
> aggregation daily.
>
>>     The latest /var/log/linuxaustralia!
>>     [1]http://paper.li/linuxaustralia/1471201130 Thanks to @[2]skimbrel
>>     @[3]DrJosh9000 @[4]linuxaustralia [5]#pyconau
>>
>>     So, what would I like the Media team to do? Well, give me feedback. Is it
>>     working? Does it help get our key messages out? Is the content relevant to
>>     you? If we find it a useful social media tool, the paid version ($USD 9
>>     per month) provides some additional integrations and controls, enabling
>>     branding etc.
> It is my opinion that by paying for this service at any price we are not
> fulfilling our mission and doing a disservice to our members.
>
> If the media team feel there is a need for a such service, it is my opinion
> that we should scope out the needs, put it out for tender and have a GPL
> application developed to meet that need.
>
> It's not an immediate solution but it is one that leaves a positive long term
> legacy that is in line with our membership's desires.
>
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