I added the following to the wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Distribution_Focus under Suggestions for openSUSE Consider the openSUSE distribution in terms of an emphasis on those users at the polar ends of technical skill. Make it a stated goal to help turn beginning users into our future advanced users. Make it a stated goal to help advanced users to use openSUSE without a great deal of effort. Also, make it easier for for an advanced user to contribute back. For new users, who might be just beginning to learn about Linux, we provide a quick start panel, which leads to online video/audio tutorials, online community, context based help and a wizard-style quick start process. We make the process of learning openSUSE truly open. Rather than casting users into a potentially new software environment, we seek to provide life-lines. We seek to make every transition and every screen make sense to someone who is using openSUSE for the first time through additional explanation, training and discussion. All of this extra help might be turned on and off with a single switch for the sake of advanced users. For the advanced Linux/Unix user, who knows what this openSUSE thing is good for, we have build services, virtual machine images, pre-release software, and wiki collaboration integrated into software help systems. OpenSUSE, when connected to the Internet, should no longer be a stack of software in isolation. Every piece of software should allow the skilled user to become involved in the community, to suggest changes, to make improvements. Every software update should include links to additional information, and perhaps daily links to discussion forums. Every piece of software should, through the help interface, connect users with the larger community through forums and wikis. We could make translation plasmoids that seek to translate one line at a time, which in turn could be fed through editing processes. Make it easier to contribute. Make contributing pleasurable by optionally presenting an audio or video based reward. Perhaps present a pleasant little animation or gentle and mild chime every time someone updates help information. Blur the lines between user and community member by folding users into the community. Pour all of these contributions into the next release. -- Ryan Brown ryabrown@ucdavis.edu -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org