On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 14:04 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:49:17 +0000 > Jonathan Roberts <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On the point of where we might have failed here, I would love to hear > > Leigh or Caroline's thoughts on it :) One quick observation from > > myself: a google for "spin your own distro" results with Revisor > > being 3 of the top 4 results; "rolling your own distro" results in no > > Fedora related results in the top page. This could provide some level > > of explanation, but perhaps if we'd really succeeded the author would > > have gone out looking specifically for Fedora info. > > This is probably my fault. I used the term "spins" and it's caught on > within the Fedora world, but maybe the rest of the world is used to the > term roll? We can change our usage of this any time, and it's probably a good chance Google will catch on shortly. We like to be innovative with everything in Fedora, but this is a good lesson for us that sticking with (or mixing in) the terminology people know, when appropriate, is worthwhile. I think Mairin's cartoon "distro-spinners" make a much cooler visual counterpoint than people rolling... uh... well, whatever it is they roll. Dough! Yes, dough. Fedora dough rollers. *Ahem.* No reason we can't use other terminology to come up with visual statements, and mix in the standard usage to help people catch on to the newer, shinier stuff. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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