On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. So speaking as a (minor) event planner for Flock, I can tell you right now that Flock will not have a measurable impact in terms of user or contributor _growth_. Which is kind of concerning when you think about it. A refresher on what Flock is: It started with Robyn's idea for a DoCon. Get people together and actually work on stuff. Accomplish tasks. Produce code (or whatever that groups output is). For the most part, Flock has worked out well for this. However, it is definitely not user oriented. It is literally an existing Fedora contributor conference, and it is the premier event for both North America and EMEA. Sure, we have talks[1]. We open registration to anyone. But the _value_ of Flock, as told to the organizers every year and even tweeted about by our illustrious FPL[2], is that is it essentially a gathering of a bunch of different FADs all at the same time in the same location. We call those "workshops" or "hack sessions" in the schedule, but really that is what they are. So if our premier event for our two most active regions is targeted at existing contributors getting things done, but at the exclusion of new user introduction and contributor growth, then we're kind of shooting ourselves in the foot there. We have no other targeted conference or system for growing contributors in those regions any longer. That seems to have forced us to fall back to the tried and true LUG/installfest/LinuxCon event path. I'm not suggesting that Flock should change to be user oriented. On the contrary, I'd like to see it change even more towards accomplishing things. I just wanted to point out that Flock isn't going to impact that Stack Exchange survey much. josh [1] Frankly, I'd like to get rid of the talks. Or if not remove them entirely, make them extremely focused on problems that need to be solved in Fedora rather than just "here is some cool software I'm working on". The audience of the talks seems to still be the traditional "introductory/new user" set, and that set isn't even present at Flock. [2] https://twitter.com/mattdm/status/632677958956752896 _______________________________________________ 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.
