On Thursday 19 May 2011 16:37:08 Chuck Payne wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote:
2011/5/19 Helen South <helen.south@opensuse.org>:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:
At LinuxTag I was challenged by a user to say 'why openSUSE over Kubuntu?' and had a think about a better answer than 'our KDE is better'. The answer I gave him was that openSUSE is a project which plays nicer with its neighbours, so by using and contributing to openSUSE you are benefitting Free Software generally, not just Ubuntu. Is that a fair answer? Do should we include such comparisons in our elevator pitches?
I don't know if is a fair answer but I think is a great answer ;-)
Will
That's a great answer and reminds me of when Jos pointed out that the word 'Linux' doesn't get a mention on the Ubuntu website.
Though having said that, I'm never keen to disparage other distros, for a bunch of reasons that I won't ramble on about here. I usually prefer to focus on our positives without using comparison.
+1 on not making comparisons with others
How about adding something like 'openSUSE Gives Back' with a comment about contributing upstream?
I think we could use that next to 'More than a Product'
In a way the actual giving-back stuff tends to get a bit muddled up with general 'community' so a separate section in the 'more details' might be worthwhile. Possibly those sections could do with a little organizing, I'll try to take a look tomorrow if I get my work done.
cheers
Helen
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Generally the elevator peaches got many peoples attention and basically gives the skeleton structure any ambassador need for a speach about openSUSE, another great tool we must streghten the more we can. Kostas
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I love all these points, need to get the Ambassador to start using those Awesome work guys.
Yup, we do. Can be done by blogging about it, for example :D I've scheduled a blog about this already. Feel free to mail the ambassador list with a reminder on the info we have or take other initiatives.