Hopefully, this is not (too far) OT. I'm not sure how many on the list use Twitter but if you do, you still might not be aware of the daily "TeXTip" tweets. These contain a URL to one place on the web or another that have something to do with TeX/LaTeX usage. I'm thinking it would be great to have a daily "ConTeXtTip" tweet as well. Am I the only one? I'm way too much of a ConTeXt newbie or I'd do it myself. Of course, I _could_ serve as the Point Of Context and do the actual Tweeting of URLs or tips that fit into 140 characters that were emailed to me. If this is too far OT, my most profound apologies to the members of the list and especially the list masters. -- Bill Meahan K8QN "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent.
Hello,
IMHO - ConTeXt topics, questions and answers are usually to long to be shrunk to 140 characters.
I think that the "ConTeXt Point" already exists - it's this forum and wiki (you'll see in the future that two sources are enough sometimes).
The more sources (including twits), the more searching, and often the more trying.
So that's just my opinion. (And - I don't use any "social network" so far (FB, Twitter, G+, ...), so maybe I'm not the right person to judge pluses and minuses of Ctx on Twitter).
Lukas
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:02:00 +0200, Bill Meahan
Hopefully, this is not (too far) OT.
I'm not sure how many on the list use Twitter but if you do, you still might not be aware of the daily "TeXTip" tweets. These contain a URL to one place on the web or another that have something to do with TeX/LaTeX usage.
I'm thinking it would be great to have a daily "ConTeXtTip" tweet as well. Am I the only one?
I'm way too much of a ConTeXt newbie or I'd do it myself. Of course, I _could_ serve as the Point Of Context and do the actual Tweeting of URLs or tips that fit into 140 characters that were emailed to me.
If this is too far OT, my most profound apologies to the members of the list and especially the list masters.
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On 11-6-2012 17:26, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
IMHO - ConTeXt topics, questions and answers are usually to long to be shrunk to 140 characters.
that could actually be the challenge .. minimal tips (alongside minimal examples) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 06/11/2012 11:31, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 11-6-2012 17:26, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
IMHO - ConTeXt topics, questions and answers are usually to long to be shrunk to 140 characters.
that could actually be the challenge .. minimal tips (alongside minimal examples)
Hans
Based on the current TeXTip tweets, Posting to the wiki _or other website_ and tweeting the URL would be sufficient. -- Bill Meahan K8QN "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Bill Meahan wrote:
Hopefully, this is not (too far) OT.
It's definitely not.
I'm not sure how many on the list use Twitter
I'm not aware of anyone among the most active users. Ulrik is the only one that comes closest by posting to Facebook and including ConTeXt-related events.
but if you do, you still might not be aware of the daily "TeXTip" tweets.
I wasn't. Thank you for the pointer.
These contain a URL to one place on the web or another that have something to do with TeX/LaTeX usage.
I'm thinking it would be great to have a daily "ConTeXtTip" tweet as well. Am I the only one?
I'm way too much of a ConTeXt newbie or I'd do it myself. Of course, I _could_ serve as the Point Of Context and do the actual Tweeting of URLs or tips that fit into 140 characters that were emailed to me.
I believe that you have almost no chance to convince Hans to start tweeting, but independent of the level of your expertise, it should not be a problem to start tweeting based solely on posts on the mailing list. * invitations to events * invitations to join user group * whenever Hans posts "I have released a new beta, it has support for this and that" (those emails can be almost automatically "retweeted") * you could announce every single beta, but the problem is that they usually don't come with any explanation, they are too frequent and very often bugfixes that the majority would not notice, or huge chunks of code with new functionality that might be hard to decode * I could send events when something happens in the distribution (but those events will be very scarce) * tip of the day would indeed be very useful, but who is going to contribute them? If tweets would be nice & useful, it could be useful to set up a cron job to send a summary of tweets from that day to the mailing list once per day. Mojca
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