On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> But obviously they weren't answered for the review author. So there is
> a problem in our getting the message out. What good is the wiki if its
> not helping our users?
Um, it's helping our developers?
I will agree that we need to do a better of job at answering questions
like "why doesn't Fedora do this or that?" and getting the word out. But
the wiki is not necessarily the place to do that.
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That said:
We've been arguing a lot about "what's our mission?" And that mission, in
a nutshell, is "to communicate important information about Fedora to
users."
Here's some pretty important information:
* Fedora is cutting-edge, because it's the best way to innovate.
* Fedora is patent-free, because it's the RIGHT thing to do.
Specifically when it comes to the second message, I think we need to
promote the idea AGGRESSIVELY. For instance:
"No audio? Funny, there's an ogg player in Fedora, and I play audio just
fine with it. Why aren't you using it? Oh, because you're paying lip
service to the importance of open standards? Ah, well then. I suppose if
you have to have your mp3s, we'll never get anywhere as a community, now
will we?"
Of course, it's better if we can boil that down to a sentence. How's this
for some sloganeering? They'd make good bumperstickers:
* FEDORA: PATENT-FREE SINCE 2003.
* MAKE OGG, NOT MP3.
* IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN SOFTWARE PATENTS, DON'T USE PATENTED SOFTWARE.
People won't get it until we hit them over the head with it.
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