Le 10/08/2010 14:28, Guido Berhoerster a écrit :
IMHO one of openSUSE's major weaknesses is its marketing failing to communicate its competitve advantages adequately.
probably, but don't forget, openSUSE (with it's new name and status) is fairly new, newer than the competitors, except ubuntu, but ubuntu spent a lot of money in marketing, money we don't have. getting a large user base is a long range work. That's why I think we have to keep what we did, but discuss on the evolution for the next years (not stricly the same as changing strategy) some ways we could: * state clearly that we wont support hardware configs more than 5 (or 7) years old (of course teams can work on other versions) - say PIV, 256Mo ram, 20Gb HDD * state we will support kde and gnome long term, and the other desktops only is teams provide support (a la lxde) - of course terminal/ncurse yast is essential; * state we will attentively follow the evolution of cloud and mobile computing * state that our infrastructure (obs, studio) allows teams to build they own appliance and that we will host them * state that we won't be incentive for complete newbies installing openSUSE, some computer skills being usefull. * quote more often "Linux". We are openSUSE GNU/Linux dstribution. Almost any computer user knows at least the name "Linux", and this is who we are. -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org