rerushg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Now to turn to my marketing and sales experience: I've got a pretty good idea of what Fedora is. Question is: Where's it going? Here are some observations from listening here and hanging around the forums. 1. Fedora will remain developmental. Seems to be fundamental to management's mission.
What do you mean by "developmental"?
2. Fedora is not "warm and fuzzy" to newbies. I really love the parrot but efforts toward a masot may lead to a sense of "misrepresentation" by newcomers. Not a good long-term strategy.
A parrot has not been decided as a mascot nor have we even decided that e need a mascot at all. Your comment on it seems premature.
Further, I think the marketing team has done a great job of differentiating Fedora from the rest of the distros. You don't want to give that away.
We don't really have much of a marketing team so I don't think we done the differentiation. It happened elsewhere.
3. What's happening in Linux is fantastic and important. I know of no other international, cross-cultural effort that's produced such positive results. All involved should be proud and work to preserve it.
There are certainly other efforts but I think ours is a good example too. So thanks.
4. It's probably going to explode across the world. You've been "under the radar" so far. As you get larger you'll likely attract a lot of intention from big business that tries to own everything. Staying legally "clean" is imperative.
That isn't optional. Red Hat is the legal entity behind Fedora and it always makes the conservative choices which we do get flamed every now and then.
5. With expansion things will change. The newer folks on the team want to run with that. Maybe some of the older guys are not so sure; maybe they're content that it stay in their private world.
As long as we understand the objectives and retain the same culture we can continue growing and accommodating newer contributors.
Perhaps you could split off FC6 (or FC7) as a separate entity. It's clearly powerful enough as it stands. Freeze the kernal. Give it its own site, documentation, and forum. Make it simple. Make it clean. Make it work all the time.
I don't we have enough contributors to split off versions into its own entity and maintain it for long period of times at this point.
Find community members who are willing and able to support the concept. Turn them loose on the "warm and fuzzy" stuff and the tools that newer users want and need. Make it sort of an "entry level Fedora" (bad choice of words but you get the idea).
I don't know what "warm and fuzzy" means her. If we are making any changes to increase usability it should be part of the main codebase instead of a sub branch or derivative. Usability enhancements is not a category like server/desktop or gnome/kde to be created as derivatives.
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