Social Media presence

[bonomani]

Current admins proposal

• JC: Set up a "Development Slack"
  • JC: Would others be interested? Waiting for feeback (via the mailing list or whatever)!
• JC: Mastodon might be the next avenue for a presence (see below Chat, Mastodon)

  Existing

  For longevity

• https://facebook.com/XymonMonitor
  • Would be good to at least reactivate that presence
• https://instagram.com/XymonMonitor (IG)
  • Would be good to at least reactivate that presence
  • Seems to microtarget well: a good capability that could be exploited for visibility
  • Would be fun to have: shots of Xymon dashboards and/or NOC rooms
• https://www.youtube.com/@XymonMonitor
  • Plethora of Xymon/Hobbit presentations people have made
  • Opportunity for explainer-style videos, or simply presentation recordings
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xymon

  Created for #hashtag and @account reference

• https://twitter.com/XymonMonitor
  • Viral tool
  • Useful for very quick, one-off questions and support response
  • Desirable at least for tracking and comms
• https://reddit.com/u/XymonMonitor (https://reddit.com/r/xymon/)
  • Activity in various subreddits adjacent to the monitoring space r/monitoring: sysadmin, devops, linux …
  • Can help to increase visibility

A few resource groups (not exhaustive)

• https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2776122/ - XymonAdmins (unlisted)
• https://www.xymon.jp/ - Japanese Xymon User Group
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/126643144159684/
• Using hashtag #xymonjp on Twitter

Chat

• irc.freenode.net
  • Freenode underwent what some staff described as a "hostile takeover" (from Wikipedia)
  • #xymon is empty, was used
  • Most teams moved to LiberaChat (no presence so far)
• Mastodon
  • Under evaluation by JC
  • Alternative to twitter
  • Possible to create our own instance server: to manage a community, ..
  • Priority: lower than a new Xymon release, but high
• Slack
  • Easy to setup, familiar for a lot of enterprise folk
  • No presence so far
  • Proposal from JC: Development Slack
• Discord
• WhatsApp activated because IG asked for
  • Warning: There's a limit to the number of rooms a human can pay attention to take
  • Warning: There's a limit to the number of rooms a human can pay attention to take

Github

• https://github.com/xymon-monitoring
  • a POC for "problem-solving"
  • Not used for code (no decision to move for now)
  • admins: Bruno and JC
• https://github.com/xymonmonitor (reserved only)
  • admins: Bruno (JC invited)
• https://github.com/xymon
  • admins: ? (Impossible for me to see who have block it...If someone knows, let me know!

Remarks

• Usage of existing presence is not always clear
• Admin? Diversity ?
• "Xymon Monitor" seems to be something a bit more trackable than "Xymon" only
• The full name is "Xymon Systems and Network Monitor" (as entitled on our SF page)
• Might have to see in the future what references become useful more organically
• No TikTok (JC: I'm drawing the line at TikTok)

[jccleaver]

Thanks for putting this together. I think Mastodon might be the next avenue for a presence, but fundamentally most of these can lie dormant until the next release happens and/or there's a reason to begin actively using them.

I've been playing around a bit with ideas for a revitalized homepage that can better reach modern sensibilities as a landing spot, although development work needs to come first. Once that landing page is improved (overviews, better navigation, clearer getting started guides, etc), social media can be an avenue to direct traffic there.