[aerogear-dev] Let's change the AeroGear Twitter account handle

Hylke Bons hbons at redhat.com
Thu Jan 30 10:14:10 EST 2014


On 30/01/2014 13:37, Lucas Holmquist wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2014, at 7:33 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org 
> <mailto:matzew at apache.org>> wrote:
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>>
>>
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>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Hylke Bons <hbons at redhat.com 
>> <mailto:hbons at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>     You are right that it may be a bit long for replies.
>>     "@AGTeam" or "@AGProject" could work too (if they weren't already
>>     taken but something amongst those line :).
>>
>>
>> not sure if AGTeam/Project is really 'cool'
>
> yea,  if i was just a random person on twitter and saw "AGTeam", i'd 
> be like WhoTF is that
>

Well, it's just a handle. Real names are shown in tweets too nowadays. 
It's better to have something that's a bit less related than something 
that is confusing. *team, *project and *tweets are pretty much 
convention too and people will figure out the name.

Hylke


>>
>>
>>     Hylke
>>
>>
>>     On 30/01/2014 11:29, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Hylke Bons <hbons at redhat.com
>>>     <mailto:hbons at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>>         "@AeroGears" can cause confusion about what the project name
>>>         really is.
>>>
>>>
>>>     All the JUGs I presented at, and some conferences call the
>>>     project already "AeroGears", due to the tiwtter handle :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>         Options to fix:
>>>         - Ask the owner of @AeroGear if he or she want to give up
>>>         the handle
>>>
>>>
>>>     are we also offering 50k ? :)
>>>
>>>         - Change the handle to "@AeroGearTeam" or "@AeroGearProject", or
>>>         something else
>>>
>>>
>>>     I think the 'concern' was that the name is too long, but on the
>>>     other hand, there is some sort of confusion w/ our actual name :-0
>>>
>>>     If I had to pick one out of those that you suggested it would be
>>>     'AeroGearTeam', that's exactly just three chars longer than the
>>>     current :)
>>>
>>>     -M
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Thoughts?
>>>
>>>         Hylke
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