Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

["Carlos Ribeiro" <CRibeiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply Requested by 6/17/2010 (Thursday) **

Dear folks

> > > Marcus Moeller <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 17 Junho, 2010 >>>
Dear Cornelius.

> > We are the openSUSE Community - a friendly, welcoming, vibrant, and
active
> > community. This includes developers, testers, writers, translators,
> >  usability experts, artists, promoters and everybody else who wishes
to
> >  engage with the project.
> >
> > To grow the openSUSE Community, we will put contributors first and
focus on
> > the following activities:
> (nice list of activities cut)
>
> This is a nice list of general community activities, but I think it's
a bit
> hard to discuss this without knowing the goal of the community and
the users
> we want to target. As I understand it goals should be part of the
strategy
> proposals discussion, right? So could we do that first?
>
> As an example, putting contributors first doesn't make a lot of
sense, when we
> want to reach out to users beyond the community. There we would have
to put
> users first and define who they are, how to reach them, and what
activities
> would support that.
>
> In general I think users should be a much more visible part of our
community,
> as I assume we are creating software not only for ourselves, but for
a much
> larger group of people.

> An how does a project benefit from users that do not contribute? We
> should instead animate 'users' to become contributors. And note:
> contribution does not mean: you have to provide code. There are a lot
> of tasks to do, so that everybody should find an area of choice.

I think this sounds like the egg and cow tale. 
No users, no contributors, but both, we need to find a way to achieve
both using if possible the same statement.

Also I really like Marcus words when he said 
"contribution does not mean: you have to provide code. There are a lot
of tasks to do, so that everybody should find an area of choice."

not only me but some other friends that are helping us to push openSUSE
to the glorious future does not understand the difference between = and
==, but this does not matter to allow others to keep contributing as
marketing, strategy, translations, spread the message using twitter,
facebook, ....

I'm not sure if is here the correct place to talk about some openSUSE
government strategy, then I'll let my points here. If I made a mistake,
please someone guide the following point to new threat. 

Brasil government have FINANCIAL INCENTIVES to companies that push
opensource to the table and invest on it. I don't know how we will work
on this segment, but we need to do something I think, maybe have a
dedicated guy (could be worldwide * but is better be a local one) to
take care of this critical and important kind of marketshare,
government.
I also dont' know about other countries but in Brazil, red hat (as
fedora), and ubuntu both  have their dedicated guys taking care for
government.

see you around
CarlosRibeiro


> Best Regards
> Marcus
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