On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 14:42, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Stephen John Smoogen < >> >> To be honest.. are Release Names really used by people when talking >> about Fedora? I see that more often in the Ubuntu/Debian communities >> than ever in Fedora/RHL communities. >> Re-reading my text, I was more rude than I expected myself to be. I apologize for any offence as I should have put more reasoning into why I brought it up. > Frankly, yes. It's easy to refer to F13 as Goddard, just as it's common for > those in Ubuntu to talk about Feisty, Gutsy, Karmic, Lucid, etc., in > referring to those releases. In fact, more times than not during the course > of a presentation, I'll refer to the release by name rather than by number. Whenever I have done that even back in the day I usually got blank stares from people. When people outside of some Fedora people mention a release it always seems to be F13 FC6 etc etc. But that might be just the type of people I end up hanging with. [Beyond the > But I've never really used the slogans when describing any Fedora release, > so I don't think we should be comparing release names to release slogans. To me they are the same thing.. words that describe something that I see in a release literature but not in RL. Beyond the fun of trying to pick something for it.. I don't see a reason for either of them myself. [And beyond the fact that my (and 2-3 developers) choice of Apollo was RHL5.2 I really cant remember one past 6 months.] > My point -- maybe missed, maybe not -- is how important is a slogan if > choosing one is causing problems and taking away from time better spent > elsewhere? Ok now I understand better. My view was that if it were causing fun like the release names seem to do.. why not. However it is more legal headaches. > [Incidentally, I am just north of ambivalent about the slogan: If we have > one, fine; if not, oh well. So I really don't have a horse in this race, so > to speak.] > > Larry Cafiero > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
