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So, who controls accounts, the kind of messages posted, the brand voice, etc. haven't historically been a concern of the PHP project. I think the framing of these statements needs to be clarified: * The PHP project doesn't have control over any of its social media accounts and never has * Since the PHP project doesn't have control over these accounts or procedures governing them, asking for access to an account is similar to requesting that someone give you access to a personal account A while back, I drafted an RFC[1] that I hoped would give us a framework for managing these things, but after off-list discussions, it seemed like it was going to be a pretty controversial RFC, and I didn't really have the stomach or time for dealing with that. We can keep this discussion narrowly focused to this RFC if we want, but we'll need to come back to this governance question at some point. Cheers, Ben [1]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/working_groups