On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 12:18 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 6/19/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If we're marketing, we start with, okay, there's this set of people who make > > up a definable demographic of some sort (geographic, or an industry or > > application, or various other ways to slice it) and say "Okay, what can we > > do to make Fedora appeal to the people that make up this market?" That might > > involve promotion in a "language" that speaks to whoever the target is -- > > and it also includes things like "if we want to appeal to market XYZ, we > > should make sure Fedora addessess function ABC." > > The market for fedora... are people in the community who want to be > more than users.. people who want to contribute. I really don't think > fedora as a distribution is aimed at any particular userbase. I don't > think fedora should make any strong claims to being a system for the > casual users or for server admins or any other "target" group of > users. Is there a distinction to be made as to Fedora user "Verticals" -- i.e. categories of users -- and Fedora Marketing/Development participants? Is it about defining AUDIENCE, again? -Sam > > -jef > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
