Mastodon: [Question] Promoting Mastodon to projects that espouse Open Source a good idea?

[spaceottercode]

Pardon the peripheral question. I couldn't find a tootsuite project more relevant than the flagship project to broach this topic. With Mastodon growing more and more every day, might it be a good idea to collectively work on putting together an email and reach out to fellow Open Source projects:

• that are already engaged in social media
• deep inside want to use an open alternative or provide a supplement to close/proprietary networks
• and aren't afraid to buck the spoiler affect.
• or are in communication with developers/contributors here.

With regards to the first point I looked around a hundred or more web sites for Open Source projects that use social media. Here are just some:

List of open source projects

Please note, I couldn't find any mention of social media accounts on a lot of extremely well known projects (fsf, ruby, git, ...). Some I found after digging deeper into the website. One thing is for sure, plenty of IRC and mailing lists :) It's quite possible I overlooked where they mention their social media accounts.

For the record, I did find one or two with Mastodon, while a few other like KDE, GIMP, and Krita have accounts on Mastodon--it's just not obvious, so its possible I may have missed many like that.

Thoughts?

My apologies if this is too out there

[mal0ki]

It's not too out there at all. It is something I've been wanting to do as part of my outreach efforts. That said, I find it is usually a lot better if users of those softwares, or members of the organizations suggest the use of Mastodon.

I feel like Fdroid is such a good example to use: https://todon.nl/@paulfree14/99858914124125210
https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/99852640003305252

[nightpool]

(i've collapsed the list of open source/free software projects in the issue description because it was very long and didn't provide much value to the request. you can still click on the "details" section to see the full post.)

[levlaz]

I would love to see more FOSS projects on Mastodon. Is there a "community" team in this project?

[Gargron]

Do you mean team as in GitHub feature "teams"? I haven't used those at all so far.

[levlaz]

Do you mean team as in GitHub feature "teams"?

Sorry no. I mean "team" as in many open source projects have a couple of teams in place such as:

• Core Development
• Operations
• Docs Team
• Community Team

This provides some accountability as well as giving folks more ways to contribute to a project outside of just code contributions.

[spaceottercode]

Me too. (for the record) I would like to see more FOSS projects on Mastodon.

(aside: hmm I'm sorta surprised github doesn't have polls)