Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
And here I think lies the mistake: don't focus on future developers,
I thought you had written that today's fanboy is tomorrow's potential
developer, however leaving that aside - what do you think would be a
Yes, but it should have been "contributor" instead of "developer"
compelling reason for new users to choose Fedora or existing users (from
other distributions) to shift to Fedora ?
To put it bluntly, for the most part people are sheep, they go with the
herd. Usually a new user will look at the most popular distro and go
with it, being afraid to be in the minority (you can argue, using Linux
you already are in the minority, but you may not want to be in the
smallest minority).
Another thing is to increase visibility. All of us should write more
about our successes and accomplishments.
And we should not avoid competition. How we can expect users to come
from other distros when our message is "we don't compete"? Competition
is not war or a bad thing, she should be proud to say "we are better
than distro X because our advantages are Y and Z"
The Ambassadors normally emphasize the message that "no contribution is
too small, even *you* can contribute" - however, as you pointed out this
is not getting as much impact as it should have been. Given that we
spend inordinate amounts of time going over "Fedora is losing ground
..." threads, there has to be either a truth to it or a perception bias.
We know for a fact the install count for F7 is about 80% compared with
FC6, so far we have only these two counted, will be able to see a trend
some time after the F8 release when we get more data.
We have had Max (among others) saying that Fedora's contribution is
projected to be more of a torchbearer and not the users per country
kind. In short, we might need to look at the definition of popularity
when it comes to Fedora. Accepting all that, how do you think we can
also push the users/contributors per country count up since that appears
to be how various external Linux sites claim to measure popularity ?
The thing is, usually developers follow the users. If the user base is
shrinking, then proportionally the number of developers will shrink.
Here is an anecdotal example: recently on the Inkscape development
mailing list recently was a talk about the date for the next release.
The *only* distro that mattered in this talk was Ubuntu and when to
release to get in Ubuntu (one or two years ago it was not the same).
Why? my guess is: because developers are users too and the majority of
Inkscape developers migrated from other distros to Ubuntu.
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