On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 9/8/05, Matt Frye <mattfrye@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > While I have mixed feelings about pushing "open" as a benefit to end > > users, > > Understanding the long term benefits of "open" is the hard one and yet > the most important one for everybody's long term interests. As long > as people are concentrating on the next 3 minutes of their > mass-marketted, throw-away, disposable materialistic consumer > experience they call a life.. it will continue to be difficult for > them to understand the benefits of "open" in any meaningful context. Is there a way to explain the meaning of being "open" for example show people how to play cd's using ogg for example. Not sure about legality though. Explaining that xvid is an open source initiative for compressions blah blah. Explaining the security. SELinux is used by such and such making it more secure. So we have like a summary with a link to lower down the document explaining what it means to be secure. Obviously keeping the KISS principle. My reason for joining the Fedora team was purely because I liked the latest things on my desktop. However I can still see problems since I run multiple distro's for certain reasons. I run ubuntu and fedora at the same time so I see the difference. For a new user ubuntu works because the majority of the time it seems to work out of the box. For the mature user Fedora performs better because of the tinkering and the messing around that can be done more so and the latest software that is not needed but wanted. The only big hurdle for the 'semi' experienced user is the RPM compared to deb as well as the difference related to that. One difference that I noticed for example which isn't a bug report but a comment. RHEL sound works on my laptop, ubuntu sound works on my desktop FC4 sound doesn't work? Things like that now I have sound working fine now because I've known what to fix but new users shake their head and go thats just to hard. So we need to specify who are we targeting. If we are targeting new users to linux then we need to make sure that every amount of information that they would need they have access to. If we are targeting more experienced users they would need the information in a different way. Developers well they need development information. I suppose it boils down to who is our target market in specifics. Demographics, pschographics, locations and purely from a marketing point of view we have to answer those questions first then we can create the information to help those users. Regards Marc P.S. You can tell I've been doing my marketing study for my company lately.d -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
