On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 06:08:23PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Fwiw, I agree w this point too and hope we can have some more > strategy around events? I think this was part of the thinking Spot > had around our presence at SXSW - reaching out to an audience we > don't normally hit at the lug/linux cons. (Does that sound right?) > > First hand impression of being at the Fedora booth at SXSW is that > the vast majority of people we spoke with had little knowledge of > Fedora and were genuinely being introduced to both Fedora and floss > tools for the first time (we focused on designer-centric tools like > Inkscape, given the audience makeup.) Yeah, I think that was very interesting. I wish we had a better idea of the lasting impact of that — I don't think we've seen a lot of new visible _contributors_ from that effort, and we don't have a clear way to measure users or even secondary impact. Dealing with that problem is key to updating our strategy. I guess I'm thinking: away from the traditional Linux fests and — let's be honest, aging — LUGs, there's still a lot of area that's closer to "home territory" in the worlds of software development, systems administration, devops/sre, and so on, that we're missing out on. I mean, look at this: http://www.meetup.com/find/tech/?allMeetups=false&radius=Infinity&userFreeform=Somerville%2C+MA&mcId=z2144&mcName=Somerville%2C+MA&sort=default&eventFilter=mysugg How many of those have Fedora presence? How many of them _aren't about Fedora_ but happen to showcase Fedora in some way, either just because the presenter is running Fedora Workstation, or because Fedora is a deployment platform? I've brought up the Stack Exchange Developer Survey¹ before, and I'll probably keep doing it until someone gives me something better. 20% of software developers run Linux, but only 6% of those (1.3% overall) run Fedora as their desktop. There's room to grow both Linux share overall *and* Fedora's relative position. But we need a strategy to do it — it won't come by doing what we're doing now. We definitely need some higher-level metrics (and Remy's working on it), but also, I'd like to encourage ambasssadors, event planners, etc., to really focus on how you can measure and demonstrate impact at the base level. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-os -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/council-discuss The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
