Den Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:53:10 skrev Francis Giannaros:
I like the last two Martin mentioned because two things that I think really set openSUSE apart are (i) the extent of innovation in and around out (unparalleled in other distributions), and (ii) I genuinely believe it's the the _most_ usable distribution out there, despite what others are saying. Either of those mottos I think would be nice for us, but 'usableness' hits a wider audience than innovation, I'd say; this 'usableness' is an incredible achievement, we should flaunt it. :)
I'm personally not 100% pleased with "usable", to me that's almost synonymous with "dumbed down". And it creates the impression that openSUSE is only about making things simple for aunt Tillie.
When in reality openSUSE is extremely powerful. Our strength is the very high technological level - combined with being fairly easy to use, _without_ being dumbed down, hiding options and making all choices for the user.
We should emphasize that. That's why I liked one of my own proposals: "Power and control" ;-)
.. even though it sounds like a tire commercial.
It would furthermore sound really good translated to German: "Kraft und Kontrolle"
To be honest, making things appealing to aunt Tillie is not something SUSE-engineers are very good at. Thank god, if you ask me.
I think we should cater more towards the "geeks and enthusiasts" that Novell marketers always like to say are the openSUSE audience. These are the people who install and administrate the OS for aunt Tillie anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org