diff --git a/ops/social-media.md b/ops/social-media.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..384f6ce9 --- /dev/null +++ b/ops/social-media.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +# Social Media Guide + +The [Resources Team] currently maintains three official social media accounts: + +* [Twitter: @rustembedded](https://twitter.com/rustembedded) + * Maintained by [@jamesmunns] +* [Cohost: @rustembedded](https://cohost.org/rustembedded) + * Maintained by [@adamgreig] and [@jamesmunns] +* [Mastodon: @rustembedded@hachyderm.io] + * Maintained by [@adamgreig] + +[Resources Team]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg#the-resources-team +[@jamesmunns]: https://github.com/jamesmunns +[@adamgreig]: https://github.com/adamgreig +[Mastodon: @rustembedded@hachyderm.io]: https://hachyderm.io/@rustembedded + +## Operational Guide + +The purpose of the social media accounts are to spread awareness of topics related to embedded rust. + +Social Media accounts will typically: + +1. Post about specific announcements from the working group, e.g. to tell people about some major new release, a breaking change, etc +2. Post WG blog posts +3. Repost/share people offering and seeking jobs, with reasonable rate-limiting (e.g. one post/week per person/group), see below for more info +4. Repost/share people's posts tagged/mentioning embedded rust, with reasonable rate-limiting (e.g. one post/week per person/group) +5. Repost/share other major Rust related posts, e.g. from the official Rust account + +In general, we ask that all social media account maintainers use their best judgement to uphold the [Rust Code of Conduct], and operate the account in a way that is both generally appropriate in representing the Rust Embedded Working Group, as well as appropriate for the social media community and norms of that particular site. + +[Rust Code of Conduct]: https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct + +## How to Share + +Each platform has different mechanisms/norms for sharing content, or marking a post as "wanting to be reposted". + +Social media accounts should periodically remind followers how to do this, and include it in the profile, if possible. + +### For Twitter + +On twitter, we ask that people "@ mention" the rustembedded account, e.g. include "@rustembedded" in a tweet. + +The twitter account will directly be notified by these mentions. + +### For Cohost + +On Cohost, we ask that people include the [#rustembedded](https://cohost.org/rc/tagged/rustembedded) tag on their posts. + +The cohost account follows this tag, and pulls posts from the stream. + +### For Mastodon + +TODO: James doesn't know how this works + +## Job Postings + +We will, at the account maintainer's discretion, repost "looking for work" or "job offer" posts. Generally with the twitter account, we've asked that: + +* For Job offers, the job offer must: + * Be public (e.g. a tweet, blog post, or on a public job posting board) + * Mention Rust (may be one of multiple mentioned languages, but should be relevant to the posting) + * Mention Embedded +* For "looking for work" posts, the user must: + * Be an individual or business directly looking for work (e.g. not a staffing agency) + * Mention Rust + * Mention Embedded