On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:09:05PM +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Nelson Marques <07721@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I hope this email has helped you and I would recommend that you look > > carefully about what I proposed you, as it might be an answer for your > > concerns. > > > > Nelson > > > > PS: "Before all else, be armed" - Niccolo Machiavelli > > Hello there, > > After 5th consecutive FEL releases, I would assume Fedora Ambassadors > to know at least what we want to achieve with it. > Hence please take some time go through and read a bit on the spin > website what it is and why it is so special. > > Our objective (from FEL contributors) with FEL is not to increase the > number of fedora users, but to increase the chance that one day, one > can have a Fedora on a purely opensource hardware. That will take some > time, but it's the Freedom (a Fedora's F) we have to strive for making > it a reality. > > But it is Fedora Marketing's job to see how the number of Fedora users > can be increased based on FEL's objective. By deleting that FEL's > paragraph on the F-12 talking point page, Fedora Marketing is limiting > the chance to increase no. of Fedora users. Please note that FEL > LiveDVD was meant for mass-deployment. Just to remind people, that > _twice_ (2 consecutive years) Linux 4 You magazine claimed to have > published more than 20000 issues with FEL dvds (in Asia). > > Those who met me last year in Belgium and Germany already saw some > demo raw chips designed under FEL collection. > > Fedora Marketing's goal is not to have more users than Canonical's > product, by the way. Let's not divert from this thread. Hi Chitlesh, The reasons you cite above are one of the reasons I feel that the FEL Spin is one of the most, if not *the* most, interesting Spin we currently have. And it's why I realize I made a mistake with the talking points, one I want to fix. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
