On Tuesday 14 September 2010 08:36:11 Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:36:40 +0200, Jos Poortvliet
wrote: "what do we currently offer, and who likes that?" IOW our CURRENT target users ;-)
As long as you don't make the error of saying "we're not loosing ground to other distros, we just target different users" that question is important. This whole strategy talking just makes me uneasy as what use is talking about the next five or ten years if you don't know why you're (perceivedly) loosing ground to other distributions. It was suggested on the german list to start by asking people you know (frieds, collegues etc.) why they abandoned openSUSE, stayed with it or stared to use it.
And no, most of them won't join this discussion here because their knowledge of English is small to non existant. Which brings up the next problem in that we leave out lots of users if we force them to use English in order to participate.
Well, PLEASE feel free to act as a conduit here between the german list and the international list - ask for feedback and use it to comment on the stuff the strategy peeps come up with! Seriously, that could be very helpful...
Philipp