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Re: [opensuse-factory] Looking outside the box
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:33:21 +0200
- Message-id: <ho64147rfy.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Josef Assad <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> I suggest to install at least one of these products on real hardware
>> and evaluate the distribution and try to get ideas for our next
>> product.
>
> Does it make sense to make an effort to survey people who have gone from
> openSUSE to another distro or OS (and that includes distro tourists,
> those fun folk who indiscriminately jump on new releases)? I don't know
> how much response the YaST survey got, but it might be a way to:
So far around 5000 people participated.
> - Get feedback from people who made a conscious decision to go with
> something other than openSUSE
> - Visibly reach out to the open source community at large
>
> I'd be happy to draft such a survey myself. Of course, it would
> subsequently require more than one man for spreading the word.
>
> Thoughts?
Might be interesting as well - but this mail was asking developers who
use openSUSE to get first hand experience with other systems,
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> I suggest to install at least one of these products on real hardware
>> and evaluate the distribution and try to get ideas for our next
>> product.
>
> Does it make sense to make an effort to survey people who have gone from
> openSUSE to another distro or OS (and that includes distro tourists,
> those fun folk who indiscriminately jump on new releases)? I don't know
> how much response the YaST survey got, but it might be a way to:
So far around 5000 people participated.
> - Get feedback from people who made a conscious decision to go with
> something other than openSUSE
> - Visibly reach out to the open source community at large
>
> I'd be happy to draft such a survey myself. Of course, it would
> subsequently require more than one man for spreading the word.
>
> Thoughts?
Might be interesting as well - but this mail was asking developers who
use openSUSE to get first hand experience with other systems,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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