Marketing social networks

Social media connects Fedora developers, users, friends, and enthusiasts around the world. This is also one strategy to share Fedora announcements, community news, and other updates. All known accounts are documented below, curated by a best-effort volunteering community.

Note: Official accounts are designated official due to their connection to the Fedora Trademark.

Official Accounts

Maintained by Marketing and/or Social Media Teams. Anyone with access to Official Accounts should be members of the fedora-socialmedia FAS group. If you believe you should be in the group, contact a group administrator or group sponsor.

Network	Page name	Links	Administrator(s)	Clients
Facebook	The Fedora Project	facebook.com/TheFedoraProject	Administrators: Brian Proffitt, Paul W. Frields, Ryan Lerch, Joe Brockmeier, Christoph Wickert, Robyn Bergeron, Jiří Eischmann, Tom Callaway, Ruth Suehle Editors: Remy DeCausemaker, Diaa Radwan	proprietary server, web-based, messaging supported in bitlbee, pidgin
Twitter	@fedora	twitter.com/fedora	Brian Proffitt, Paul W. Frields, Ruth Suehle, Joe Brockmeier, Ryan Lerch, Matthew Miller, Justin W. Flory, Jona Azizaj, Marie Nordin	proprietary server, web-based, clients available (cawbird)
YouTube	Fedora Project	Fedora Project	Owner: Matthew Williams (?) Managers: Brian Exelbierd, Brian Proffitt, Caius CHANCE, Christoph Wickert, Izhar Firdaus (KageSenshi), Jiří Eischmann, Joe Brockmeier, Justin W. Flory, Kevin Fenzi, Mark Terranova, Paul W. Frields, Remy DeCausemaker, Ruth Suehle, Ryan Lerch, Tom Callaway, Matthew Miller, Charles Profitt, Eduard Lucena, Alberto Rodriguez Sanchez	proprietary server, web-based, supported in video-downloader
Reddit	/r/Fedora	reddit.com/r/Fedora/	Active Moderators: Radka (Rhea) Gustavsson, Eric Gustavsson	proprietary server, web-based
Discord	Fedora Linux	discord.gg/fedora	Admins: Radka (Rhea) Gustavsson	proprietary server, has web version, open source clients are forbidden by license terms
Telegram	@fedoranews	@fedoranews	Justin W. Flory, Jiří Eischmann, Ryan Lerch, Marie Nordin, Sumantro Mukherjee, Eduard Lucena	proprietary server, has web version, open source client available in RPMFusion
Instagram	@thefedoraproject	instagram.com/thefedoraproject/	Ryan Lerch, Jona Azizaj, Justin W. Flory	proprietary server, has web version
Matrix	#fedora:matrix.org	#fedora:matrix.org	Admins Momčilo "Momo" Medić, Kevin Fenzi	proprietary server, has web version, open source client available in Fedora Copr

Secondary Accounts

Secondary accounts are accounts created officially within the project, but they are not the primary method for distributing news or information. Often, these accounts post automatically or pull from other feeds to relay content.

Network	Page name	Links	Purpose	Administrator(s)
Twitter	@fedoracommunity	twitter.com/fedoracommunity	Ryan Lerch has/had a script to automatically tweet links for new Community Blog articles	Administrators: Brian Exelbierd, Jona Azizaj, Justin W. Flory, Marie Nordin, Paul W. Frields, Ryan Lerch Contributors: (none) Pending invitation: Eduard Lucena (as an Admin), Matthew Miller (as an Admin), Sumantro Mukherjee (as an Admin)
Twitter	@fedora_planet	twitter.com/fedora_planet	Automatically tweets out new Fedora Planet articles	???

Fedora Community-Managed Accounts

Fedora Community-Managed Accounts are related to the Fedora Project, but not officially maintained by the Fedora Marketing Team or Social Media administrators. Often, these accounts are specific to a region or country. These pages are typically run by an individual contributor or a group of contributors. However, these accounts are not officially endorsed by the Fedora Project or Red Hat Inc.

Facebook pages

Page name	Links	Administrator(s)
Fedora Albania	facebook.com/fedorasq	Jona Azizaj (via Open Labs Albania)
Fedora Bangladesh (group)	facebook.com/groups/fedorabangladesh
Fedora Project - Local Community Myanmar	facebook.com/fedorammcommunity	Yan Naing Myint
Projeto Fedora Brasil	facebook.com/fedorabr	Daniel Bruno, Wolnei
Fedora Ni	facebook.com/FedoraNicaragua	William Moreno (owner), Eduardo Mayorga
Fedora Pakistan	facebook.com/FedoraPakistan	Nasir Hussain

Twitter accounts

Account name	Links	Administrator(s)
Fedora Albania	twitter.com/fedorasq	Jona Azizaj (via Open Labs Albania)
RussianFedora	twitter.com/RussianFedora	Inna Kabanova
Fedora in Greece	twitter.com/fedora_gr	???
Fedora™ Indonesia	twitter.com/FedoraIndonesia	Jurankdankkal
ProjetoFedora	twitter.com/projetofedora	Daniel Bruno, Wolnei
Fedora Nicaragua	twitter.com/FedoraNi	William Moreno (owner), Eduardo Mayorga
NeuroFedora	twitter.com/neurofedora	Ankur Sinha and the NeuroFedora SIG See the SOP.

Other networks

Network	Page name	Links	Administrator(s)
Flickr	FEDORA GNU/linux	flickr.com/groups/fedora/	???
Fedora-IT	Fedora Italy	forum.fedoraonline.it	robyduck
Vkontakte	Russian Fedora	vk.com/club10679202	Inna Kabanova

Retired Accounts

These accounts, for one reason or another, are retired, deleted, or no longer maintained.

Network	Page name	Links	Administrator(s)
diaspora*	fedora@diasp.org	diasp.org/u/fedora	Brian Proffitt
Identica	Fedora Project	identi.ca/fedora	Paul W. Frields (owner), Robyn Bergeron (working on it), Matias Kreder, Jonathan Nalley, Jared Smith
Linkedin	Fedora	linkedin.com/e/gis/49737/	Paul W. Frields, Pascal Calarco, Francesco Crippa, Jon Stanley

Google+

The Google+ service shut down on 2019 April 2.

Account name	Links	Administrator(s)
Fedora Project	plus.google.com/+Fedora	Owner: Matthew Williams Managers: Brian Exelbierd, Brian Proffitt, Caius CHANCE, Christoph Wickert, Izhar Firdaus (KageSenshi), Jiří Eischmann, Joe Brockmeier, Justin W. Flory, Kevin Fenzi, Mark Terranova, Paul W. Frields, Remy DeCausemaker, Ruth Suehle, Ryan Lerch, Tom Callaway, Matthew Miller Communications manager: Charles Profitt
Fedora Albania	plus.google.com/communities/105327757478147133758	User:G1m
Proyecto Fedora	plus.google.com/communities/103027051591113621787	User:Gomix
Fedora Nicaragua	plus.google.com/+FedoraOrgNi	William Moreno (owner), Eduardo Mayorga
Fedora Portugal	plus.google.com/communities/109959996284119569153	Pedro Andrade (owner), Nuno Rodrigues

Account security

Most official social media accounts are managed by each administrator's personal account on that network, like for Facebook or Google+. In cases like Twitter, access is granted to individual accounts using Tweetdeck. However, single passwords still exist for these accounts. The passwords are securely stored within Fedora's infrastructure, along with private assets used by the Infrastructure team. As of October 2016, Patrick Uiterwijk manages password storage and security.

Past discussions

• Social media was briefly discussed at the Marketing FAD 2010. complete logs are available (start at 14:10:39). For a shorter recap, see this video of Neville Cross, Ryan Rix, and Paul Frields explaining the discussion and a diagram of the whiteboard (photo by Henrik Heigl).

Microblogging Goals/Wishes

• Use identi.ca primarily and have that mirrored to Twitter: -- Perhaps using Identigator
• Come up with something more FLOSSy than HootSuite that actually works with Identi.ca (see above suggestion)
• Verified accounts
• Twitter accounts we care about are listed. ??
• Automated (get eyeballs)
• Manual (for calls to action)
• push content vs conversations (keeps us authentic)
• QA and accountability (for quality of content)
• Aggregate #fedora, #fudcon, etc. tweets -- Identigator maybe ??

Related

Status and microblogging SOP