On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:33:48PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >On 08/21/2009 10:57 AM, John Poelstra wrote: >> Rex Dieter said the following on 08/21/2009 07:04 AM Pacific Time: >>> OK, I get the idea behind all of this, really I do. Much of it is >>> great, but let me share what's been nagging at the back of my mind for >>> some time. It's just been hard to put into words, so I'll try my best >>> here. >>> >>> Let's get back to the question: What is Fedora? >> >> The question of "What is Fedora" has still not adequately been answered >> for me. Refocusing the download page is *part* of getting to answering >> the question, but I still do not believe we are as clear as we could be >> about what we *are* (present) and what we *want* to be (future). I >> realize others believe that defining it too much will stifle the project. >> > >Fedora is the community of people who are involved with Fedora. So we're FedoraSpace/FedoraBook? >I agree with this on a certain level and disagree with it on another >level. I think that the Fedora Project should concentrate on being >stellar at community building. The Fedora Product(s) should include a >"solid flexible base distro for many different purposes" which may well >be good without being great. On top of that one product, we can create >other products that should strive to be great and focus on one area. >But the project as a whole should be diverse and try to make the "solid >flexible base" something that everyone can build on top of. I'm sorry, but when I read this it sounds like you might as well be saying "Fedora is a social networking experiment centered around creating a marginal distro of new stuff that other people polish up." I'm pretty sure that isn't what you intended at all, but it's exactly what a newbie might interpret. And it sounds pretty boring to me. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
