Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (169 mails)

[Klaas Freitag <freitag@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag 09 November 2010, 14:36:00 schrieb S.Kemter:
> > If I understand it correctly, he wants to
> > start packaging these cool small projects for all linux distro's on OBS.
> > We can get in contact with them and make sure they use OBS as download
> > location and mention us in the release announcement. Did I understand
> > that, Gnokii?
>
> no I dont wont do package that stuff. I want to find such projects and inform 
> them directly about the OBS. Help them to migrate if they like to do that, 
> not 
> package ther stuff, that they should do self.
Good idea, we (as in boosters) had this idea from day 0 on the list, but not
yet realised. We called  it "Upstream Attracktion Program UAP" which means
exactly that: Tell upstream about the benefits they can gain from using OBS.

I don't think that is done with just a bit of blogging, otherwise you end up
with the answer "Sure, go ahead and package our project in OBS, fine :-)". 
We need to outline a real benefit for upstream, otherwise it becomes hard
to convince people.

First, everything needs to be well documented: What are the conditions ("No,
you do not have to use openSUSE to join OBS"), how to package, what our 
download infrastructure offeres, what interfaces do we offer to include them 
into the projects web site and so on. Maybe we want to have anything special
support wise like a own irc channel. On the longer run, we might also want
to use our popular name to promote these projects, maybe in a "opensuse 
showcase"
or the upstream project of the month or such.

I think we already have a lot of that, but I think we should think and sort
out things well before we start that.

regards,

Klaas

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