On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:05:38PM +0100, nelson marques wrote: > Sorry but I don't see any harm in promoting amongst Fedora enthusiasts to > link to the project and why. It does sound reasonable to me. And if we can > tell them a couple of useful information on how it works... I see no harm > or any obscure reasons for not doing it. There is a difference between spending our resources on growing a culture of fanboys, and growing a culture of contributors. We can encourage people to show support for the Fedora Project without expending a great deal of effort *pursuing* them to do that. If a wiki page allows people with no intention of contributing to create helpful page ranking for Fedora, I see no problem with creating it. I would definitely not want to spend a large amount of time strategizing about how to do so when the return on investment is simple page ranking. There's a saying on my blog that is really meaningful to me. I don't always measure up to it, but I try to, and I hope Fedora does as well: "Esse quam videri," which means "to be, rather than to seem to be." What's most important to me as FPL is that Fedora have a wonderful, growing community of contributors actually doing great things for free software -- not just to *seem* like it is because we have a lot of people talking about it. -- 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
