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One of the things I really love about Fridays, other than they herald the weekend, is #followfriday on Twitter. Many folks join Twitter and don’t understand what it’s all about. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say they don’t know who to follow. The #followfriday trend is about those who use Twitter recommending to new people, as well as long standing users, someone new to follow.
Here is my personal list of folks and businesses that are open to open source or free software. I’ve included in parenthesis their specialty.
ranginui / Chris Cormack- (Koha – open source ILS)
joetho / Joe Tho- (Koha – open source ILS)
wizzyrea / Liz Rea- (Koha – open source ILS)
Miromurr / Thomas Brevik- (Koha – open source ILS)
gmcharlt / Galen – (Koha – open source ILS)
magnusenger – (Koha – open source ILS)
corephp / ‘corePHP’ (PHP – scripting language that is free software)
nirak / Karin Dalziel- (Linux – open source operating system)
galaxiecruzin / Alex B – (Linux – open source operating system)
nengard / Nicole Engard – (Koha – open source ILS)**
But these people are far from the only ones out there on Twitter. You can use Twitter search directories to find other like minded people. On WeFollow, I found 220,545 Twitters who have used the words open source in their profile. On Twellow, I found 89 Twitters. On JustTweet It you can find Linux users, Joomla (open source CMS ) Tweeters, Wordpress Tweeters, and even Drupal (open source CMS) Tweeters.
So no matter what open source avenue you want to pursue, there is probably someone on Twitter who you’d want to follow. Great thing about the open source community, most folks are eager to lend a hand. So ask away on Twitter, you’ll find folks happy to answer your open source question or point you in the direction of a great resource.
** nengard posted on Liblime’s Open Sesame blog other social web sites associated with Koha
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I would like to offer up the idea of joining http://identi.ca if you are interested in Open Source software. It works the same as Twitter but is built on an open microblog technology. The software that Identica runs on is called Laconica (http://laconi.ca) and is open source itself.
The advantage to using a Laconica based system is that you can set up your own server for your group of people to ‘dent’ (same as a ‘tweet’) back and forth within a private group or company without those notices going out to the entire internet. Alternatively you can have a public group set up a server and use your own domain name and users and tie into any other public laconica system, such as Identica. Using a distributed system like this if any one site goes down you’re still tied into the rest of your friends. During the downtimes of Twitter no one can talk to anyone else on the system.
And if you’re looking for Open Source enthusiasts they are in the majority of users on the Identica site. So point your browser to http://identi.ca to get a peek at the site and if you want to follow someone there a good choice to start with would be http://identi.ca/chuck