On 10/12/2009 06:45 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:28 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
So lets leave the other missions in place, as suggested in the paper, and
just add one? Is there anyone else on the list that thinks trying to
build a usable, general purpose desktop is not worth being a mission of
the Fedora Project?
Let me ask it a different way. What do we accomplish by narrowing down
the entire project's focus in an exclusionary way to a single product?
I have a couple of issues with your question as you posed it:
"Narrowing down the entire project's focus"
I wouldn't say we're narrowing down the entire project's focus. Rather,
I think we should define the project's external face to the world, since
it is right now rather confusing to an outsider.
"In an exclusionary way"
I'm not sure where anybody has proposed exclusion.
I've proposed having different places for different things, so rather
than having a big bucket of random things, kicking that over to external
folks looking at is, and telling them "have fun".... we have a bucket
here for 'desktop product', a bucket here for 'custom built alternative
desktops and OS spins', a bucket here for 'getting involved in the
community.' Because the very word "Fedora" is ambiguous - it could mean
a number of things to different people.
Now, the idea behind focusing on a single product to dub 'the Fedora' I
believe could help us have a consistent message - Fedora is this OS. The
Fedora community is the organization that makes it happen, but they do a
lot of other cool stuff you can learn about.
FWIW I think there are a lot of organizations that have a product that
gets them exposure / brand recognition that they then use to get
interest/support for another cause.
A couple of examples I can think of: Girl Scout cookies, Newman's Own
food products. (Newman's Own is actually a non-profit organization that
donates all their profits to charities) I'm quite confident there are
others but I'm having trouble coming up with more examples at the moment.
~m
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