On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 20:18 +0200, jdd wrote:

Le 31/07/2010 19:16, Rajko M. a écrit :

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Check Satistics page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Statistics 11.3 is not used as much as 11.2, etc.

if it work, don't break it! impressive stability among versions, still many 11.0 and nearly as many 11.1 & 11.2

11.3 is just starting

jdd

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It's hard to draw instant conclusions about the numbers. Clearly, the marketing team is accountable in large part for increasing numbers where we can. But we had two challenges wrt to 11.3. The first challenge is that this is a rebuilding year for the Marketing Team. As I have said before we launched 11.3, my most important goal was team participation, not numbers. In that respect, I'm sure many of us can say it was a success. Team participation, commitment and willingness to learn and understand was important and it helped many on the team to better understand where their strengths and weaknesses were in preparation for the next release when we can hit it even harder. The second challenge is actually the version number itself. And as we recall, in -Project mailing list, there's been an ongoing discussion about coming to a better definition of what versions mean for openSUSE. I, and at least some others, knew that pushing the next release as 11.3 would be a message problem for us because the .3 change is perceived by many to be simply an update. That versioning discussion needs to continue until we have a clearer way of defining what each version release means to the public. I probably should also say that the lack of a highly-visible public figure to sell openSUSE had some impact as well. 11.3 was released without a Community Manager. Now that Jos is here, we'll once again have a public face to promote openSUSE. So my perception of those numbers is... We did good. We didn't do hugely well, and it would have been nice to see huge numbers, but frankly that wasn't the highest priority right now for our team. It should, and *will* be! And if you look at the numbers, I think it was pretty good without a Community Manager. Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Le 31/07/2010 20:33, Bryen M. Yunashko a écrit :

It's hard to draw instant conclusions about the numbers. Clearly, the marketing team is accountable in large part for increasing numbers where we can. But we had two challenges wrt to 11.3.

please don't feel guilty at all !!! these numbers are very good. They show simply that openSUSE users love they distro and keep it for a long time!! this is *very* good. I *love* long term users!! Why should they change for the new one if the old one fill all they needs? and how could 11.3 compete only 15 days after the release? I see these numbers as very good a you have a large part in this *good* result!! jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org