Re: Report from Med@Tel

Hi,
regarding Twitter, it is very network related, you register to a feed and possibly forward to your followers. I am not sure this would finally "touch/ping" the final user. Either you already know Debian(Med), and this could be usefull as simple informational feed, or you don't know it and I am not sure Twitter will help...

Olivier

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> De: "Andreas Tille" <andreas_at_an3as.eu>
> À: "Debian Med Project List" <debian-med_at_lists.debian.org>
> Cc: "Debian Project" <debian-project_at_lists.debian.org>, "Debian Events EU" <debian-events-eu_at_lists.debian.org>
> Envoyé: Dimanche 10 Avril 2011 19:43:14
> Objet: Report from Med_at_Tel
> Hi,
>
> I would like to give a short report about my presence at Med_at_Tel in
> Luxembourg. This conference for medicine informatics had some Open
> Source track and the organisers invited me to give an introduction
> about
> Debian Med. The slides of my talk are available as well as the paper I
> submitted for the abstract book[1]. The audience were about 20 people
> somehow connected to some medical Open Source project and the talk was
> well received. (For instance I've got a warm handshake: "Thanks for
> what you are doing" afterwards.)
>
> What always astonishes me is that people in all circumstances I'm
> reporting about Debian Med immediately agree with me that this is
> something which is really helpful and needed. However, even if I'm
> traveling through the world since eight years to talk about this
> concept
> - not only for the topic of medicine, also for other fields - people
> consider it brand new and they were not aware that such a thing really
> exists. The obvious conclusion is that I (or rather we Debian people)
> somehow failed in advertising it.
>
> We could even say that Debian could serve as (buzz-word alarm)
> application store for different fields of work. While we probably are
> a
> bit nervous about such kind of buzz words it actually fits to some
> extend to what we are doing (at least I came to this conclusion when
> talking to other conference participants). More advertising adictive
> people than we would sell Debian as this. While I'm hesitating to sell
> Debian as "something" we probably need to adapt to the language our
> potential users are speaking to let them understand what we are doing.
> In times where importand people pronounce "Debian was a pointless
> exercise"[2] we should not trust that users simply find their way to
> Debian just by evaluating its technical brilliance. We (at least the
> Debian Med team) are now targeting at other user groups as well.
>
> For instance I talked to an engaged Fedora user who liked the support
> of
> medical software inside Debian. When I told him that there is also
> support for Education, Science, Multimedia, GIS, Games, etc. he could
> not even believe this. (I think I finally got this guy convinced when
> I
> explained him that we even support kFreeBSD which enables him to use
> ZFS
> and it took me about 5min to make sure he really understood what we
> provide - at first he believed in certain hacks, chroots, VMs
> whatever.)
>
> But this guy made an important point: If we obviosely fail in
> advertising the cool stuff we just have, what about using social media
> like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. I'm personally quite ignorant of
> all this stuff. However, if I look over the shoulder of some of my
> friends and see with what pieces of "information" they are poluting
> the
> "byte space" by using twitter so that I'm convinced that it is a
> reasonable thing to ignore this medium - I could perfectly imagine to
> twitter any uploaded Debian package. Something like
>
> Uploaded <pkg> <version> - <shortdescription>
>
> and in the case of Debian Med enriched with '#DebianMed' could do a
> reasonable job. Once implemented this could serve as a quite cheap way
> to get some attention amongst potential users.
>
> What do you think about this and what other chances do you see to make
> use of social media to make the things we are doing right more
> popular?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>
> [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/201104_luxembourg
> [2]
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/our-exclusive-interview-with-linus-torvalds-lca2011/
>
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