Today we pushed up
some changes to the OpenNTF website. The previous area "IP and Legal"
has been split down into "IP" and "Legal". The Legal
area covers legalistic documents for aspects such as our bylaws, IP policy,
privacy policy etc. If you're looking for practical content about the IP
process and how to apply it, you should look instead at the IP area. A
lot of the content here has been restructured or slightly reworded to better
explain why we do it, why you want us to do it, and do make it less daunting
to implement. It may seem scary if you've not done it before, but in practice
it's very straightforward and our IP Manager Jesse Gallagher will help
you through any typically minor amendments, if they are needed.
Hopefully we've
updated all links within the site, but if you spot any or have ideas for
any improvements, please let us know either on the OpenNTF Slack chat or
posting to our @OpenNTF Twitter account.
When the free non-production
Domino server license was launched on developerWorks
earlier this year, it brought that area of developerWorks to the conscious
awareness for possibly the first time. I looked at the "Communities"
sub-page and, in particular, the "Social" area near the bottom
on the right. That highlighted that there were Twitter feeds being publicised
that were not being maintained. That needed addressing.
CollaborationToday
has a team curating the content that appears there in a variety of categories
and the Home Page of OpenNTF has a widget that displays new releases. There
is content that could and should easily be blogged by @Collab2day and
@OpenNTFProjects. But we're all busy people
and we endeavour to work smarter. There are tools to automate posting to
a Twitter account and one of those that I've been using since the end of
last year for various integrations is IFTTT.
For those who
haven't used it, IFTTT allows you to set up "recipes" which will
perform some action based on something else occurs (IFThis
Then That). Two of those endpoints are an RSS feed and Twitter.
So for a few months now we've had various recipes so that if there is a
new feed item, IFTTT will automatically post a tweet. But CollaborationToday
includes a variety of categories and few will be interested in all categories.
So to make the tweets more useful and more informative, there are different
recipes for each category, adding a prefix to the tweet depending on the
RSS feed category filter, as you can see below.
You can see the
result below:
Currently there
is no RSS feed for new project releases, so that is proving less straightforward
to automate. But obviously that's feasible, it's just going to take some
custom development.
UPDATE:
As a duplicate tweet just reminded me, I also set up an IFTTT recipe for
the main OpenNTF account to automatically tweet new stories via the OpenNTF
Blog RSS feed. The lesson to learn is automation is great until you forget
what you've automated!
