Proposal to run an official Mastodon account for GnuPG/Gpg4win

[Bernhard Reiter]

Dear Verein-Members,

with many people moving to ActivityPub based fediverse for microblogging,
my idea is to have a Mastodon account that can do official announcement
and general comments about GnuPG, Gpg4win, OpenPGP and related topics
of #FreeSoftware and #EndtoEndCrypto.

My suggestion on gnupg-users@ was met with a number of positive
responses and Werner (our chair) also agreed that we could try.

I propose that the verein runs the Mastodon account
and I volunteer to do it (as long as I and the verein want this).
I may delegate it to people in my company (Intevation).
Access to the account would be given to the other board members.

In addition I think the verein shall volunteeringly pay one of the smaller (to 
medium) Mastodon instances to help covering their server and administrative 
costs; 50-10€/year seems reasonable to me.

(The official https://twitter.com/gnupg channel as 20,800 followers which puts
a bit load on a server if they start interacting with our posts.)

If there are no objections within the next 7 days
I'll go forward with it.

Regards
Bernhard

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Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998
Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter
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