Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (108 mails)

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jbrockmeier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/22/2008 06:58 AM, Stephan Binner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> without doubt the current MS Windows users are the biggest chunk which we can
> and want to make switch to openSUSE. But IMO we are are not targetting marke-
> ting and development efforts to that goal enough. We have some good pieces in
> place or development like InstLux[1] or Mango[2] and some (rather thin) docu-
> mentation [3,4] but we can and should do better as others do a better job [5].
>
> So any idea what are we missing, how to reach and help Windows users better
> (this can be also feature requrests for future distro releases like [6])? :-)

Do we, in the marketing area, want to get involved with feature requests?

I'm thinking that's a bit of feature creep, in terms of what the scope 
of -marketing is, but I'm interested in feedback.

(OTOH, we might want as a group to research what features users most want.)

Best,

Zonker

> For inspirations maybe also have a look at what Apple and its user community
> are doing with the "Apple Switcher" campaign, tutorials and help sites.
>
> Bye,
>     Steve
>
> [0] 
> http://www.benkevan.com/blog/switching-from-windows-to-linux-what-you-need-to-know/
> [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux
> [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Mango
> [3] http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_migrate_from_Windows
> [4] http://en.opensuse.org/Application_Equivalents
> [5] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows
> [6] https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305308


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