On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > On 07/01/2014 10:47 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > >> Is Fedora simply a project to >> > >> create a Linux distribution, or is it something larger? >> > > … or something smaller instead? >> > > >> > > These kinds of questions have a tendency to lead to answers that mostly >> > > expand the scope of what we should be achieving, making it more general, >> > > more vague, and more close to impossible to succeed. >> > >> > Not that I disagree, but do you have an example of an answer to the >> > question we should avoid? >> >> From a certain slashdotted blog post: ‘In fact, these days GNOME describes >> itself as a “community that makes great software”, which is as nondescript >> as you can get for software development.’ is what first came to my mind as a >> counterexample. (Note: GNOME _doesn’t_ describe itself that way any more.) > > And this is actually the main thing we should focus. Successful project > (not only open source/community) has to aim far beyond technology. And you > know, we are all hackers, engineers, geeks etc. and we forget very often > there's that more. Our small problems are problems of the whole universe. > > Based on above, success for Fedora for me is ability to balance technical > part with the other part. Is it hard to measure - yes, it is. Is it needed? > Yes, it is. > > Actually there's simple metric - compare number of tech folks in Fedora > with other non tech positions :). Can you define how they would be "in Fedora"? Do they simply use Fedora, or are they contributing non-technical things to Fedora in your metric? josh _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
