Heh.
So now I'm catching up on all of the mail from the past week, and it looks
like things got a little snippy. Let me add my $0.02, for what they're
worth:
1. Numbers don't impress me, except in a very general way. Debian and
Ubuntu and Fedora are all doing very well. I'd like to get *some*
accurate numbers -- but only to tell us how well *we* are doing. What do
I want to see? More users, more packagers, more awareness, more
innovation. But I'm *not* interested in "how we're doing versus Ubuntu
today". Having seen and talked with a lot of folks in Debian/Ubuntuland
at LinuxTag, I've come to the conclusion that everyone has their own
problems to solve. I'm interested in solving ours.
2. "Marketing" is perhaps a misnomer here. People think of "marketing" as
this aggressive, sell-the-sizzle, hit-the-number sort of idea. That's not
what I think of when I think about this list of people. I think of much
more basic stuff: tell people what's good about Fedora, and why they
should use it, and most importantly, why they should *participate*. I'm
not interested in having 10 gazillion users; I'm interested in having a
few thousand knowledgable advocates. The user base will take care of
itself.
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