On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> And to answer your question about what "isnt' broken". I suggest you look > >> at our http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics page. We've only seen > >> growth in 2 of our last 6 releases. Think about that. > > > > While I don't see that as directly relating to the mission of the > > Fedora Project I understand it is important to many people and I > > understand there is an indirect link with the mission. But what > > indicates that is a problem with the distribution as opposed to a > > marketing problem? > > > > The marketing "problem" is this: Who are we marketing to? Defining the > target audience - as broad as it may be - helps here. > I read your blog post from last month and liked its basic idea but had problems once it developed to the conclusion :-) I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who want to work on open source operating systems. If you want to market the Fedora Project, that's the audience that needs to be addressed. If you want to market a physical product, like the Fedora Desktop Spin, then that should be a decision made below the Board level. Making a decision about the target audience of the various distributions that we have limits the choices of the people who want to work on open source operating systems. Making a target audience decision at the SIG level widens the choices as marketing/artistic/documentation/etc people can choose which audiences they want to address via which medium. -Toshio
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