Guidelines for tweeting from the @astropy account.
- Use "we"
- Use a general voice and avoid personal pronouns, e.g., "you"
- Share information related to version releases
- Promote milestones in the project
- Advertise activities at workshops, conferences, Google Summer of Code
- Give a shoutout when people get their first PR merged.
- Highlight specific people when there are new releases or big PRs merged.
Examples:
- We’re 2 new committers away from 200 contributors - come join the comunity! Check here for open, low-effort issues https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3AEffort-low
- Check out the major changes/improvements in Astropy v2.0: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/2.0.html
- To install or update to the latest version use either 'conda install astropy' or 'pip install astropy'
- If general/common Q, just answer
- If specific Q, respond by pointing to a specific user.
Examples:
- That's a great question. Adrian (@adrn), the lead, might be able to help.
- Retweet
- if credit is not in original tweet, quote tweet and give credit to specific people.
Examples:
- We're so glad you like . hat tip to the lead maintainers <names & handles>
- Show respect and validate user's concern
- State that we are aware of this problem and working on it.
- offer name/twitter handle of person who might be able to help.
- link to open issues