On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:47 +0100, S.Kemter wrote:
Hello,
I doing very often researches for not so well known free software. Such things like
Hotot http://hotot.org/ a really cool Twitter client
or
Turpial http://code.google.com/p/turpial/ another Twitter client
or
sK1 http://sk1project.org a free vector graphics editor, very cool for prepress process
and very often I see the same there, just take a look to the download pages. That are only two examples, there are lot more small but cool software projects out there.
So now the question is, do we the right strategy for marketing? Its enough to make talks about or writing endless long release messages?
For me it looks its the wrong strategy because we get not really the result we want. What we want is a lot of small software projects using the OBS for packaging there stuff right?
As I said I test very often small not so known software, I find a lot of such projects on google code or on canonicals launchpad. Mostly I can find binaries only for ubuntu.
2 possible reasons why the situation so is.
- they never heard from OBS
- they have no knowledge about packaging RPM
So what to do now? Simple let us make as team for the next release of OBS an direct marketing. I am alone cant do that, because on the end you have to communicate over a little time with the picked projects. So I can do only 4 or 5, bu thats not enough to make a feelable result.
So let us make as team a list with interesting projects, with the situation like hotot or sK1. And then make short before the next release an direct marketing. Even we have no success with bring them to use OBS so we know after that why they dont do that.
br gnokii
You're raising good issues here. Some of us have talked about it in hallways at OSC10, but didn't come to any conclusive strategy yet. The problem we have is that we still project ourselves as a distro ratther than as a project. We need to change the way we present ourselves, and definitely the final strategy statement will help emphasize that. There are more than just the distro, more than just OBS. For example, there's the openSUSE Book Builder project, which will eventually allow anyone to write books using oBB. When I look at our booths, we don't project ourselves as a PROJECT. We constantly push about the distro and that is what the world perceives us as. Yes, the distro is important, but so are many other things that the world can benefit from even without using our distro. That's what we need to emphasize. For example, OBS is called openSUSE Build Service. But OBS is not just for openSUSE. People read the name and assume this is just for packaging for the openSUSE distro and therefore it doesn't apply to them. Changing the name to something like Open Build Service would help in some ways. I think we need to continue to do writings and presentations about OBS, but we need to also look at our overall marketing strategy that we don't just look like we are promoting a distro, but that we are promoting a project that offers a variety of benefits regardless of your choice of distros. After all, we're the Project for open minds. Right? :-) Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org