Dne pátek 12. července 2024 14:21:03, SELČ, Neal Gompa napsal(a):
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 8:01 AM Sarah Julia Kriesch <ada.lovelace@gmx.de> wrote:
I would be interested for the reason (how) the SUSE Management people have received the idea with the openSUSE rebranding as an improvement. It seems, that some self-reflection and analysis of the behaviour (incl. the relationship) have been missing. The presentation that triggered this discussion was given by Robert Sirchia (who is involved in SUSE marketing) at the conference was on behalf of Andy Fitzsimon (who is in charge of SUSE's brand stuff).
It's nice, that both are so active in the community marketing and are open for discussion here.
This has also been a long-running discussion in the background between SUSE and the openSUSE Board. There has been *plenty* of analysis of the relationship.
- What were the pros and cons for the rebrand? - What were the alternatives? - Was the voting private? - I guess we can't see any results of the analysis? - Is it a decision and request or just a proposal as marketed?
That does not change the problems related to brand confusion, defense difficulty, and external perception issues that the current brand situation has.
There is no brand confusion. SUSE and openSUSE is one brand (or two symbiotic brands). As long as SUSE uses openSUSE code and community work, it's just that and no "brand" PR talk is gonna solve that. Regards, Gfs