Den Thursday 19 April 2007 13:13:30 skrev Francis Giannaros:
On 4/19/07, Sabine Soellheim ssoellheim@novell.com wrote:
So that everybody can participate to vote the best slogan, we created a wiki-voting page: http://en.opensuse.org/Election:OpenSUSE_Slogan
Provided that there is nothing said against it, we pre-selected the 10 best slogan also based on your input. We will facilitate the voting until next Friday, 27/04 and than reward the best slogan.
Again many thanks for your participation.
To be honest I think the ones selected are pretty poor. Needless to say there were many spectacularly bad ones in the proposal ;-), but I'm not sure why these were picked. The current winner -- "Linux for open minds" -- really doesn't add anything much new to openSUSE as a Linux flavour, as Linux is open. It only really makes sense if you're coming from SLE or something.
I support Francis. I wonder what the criteria for the selection was.
Imho the mission statement/slogan should at least: * Speak to Windows and GNU/Linux users alike * Say something about what openSUSE is and what sets it apart from other distros.
Of the 10 proposals on election only "Linux at it's best" comes close to living up to these simple criteria. Most of the others would be true for any Linux distro, and say nothing about openSUSE's unique qualities.
Many of the discarded proposals did on the other hand, for example: Powerful technology togehter The Heart of Linux Innovation The world's most usable Linux
Just to list a few random examples that actually say something about what makes SUSE different from the other ~500-1000 distros.
Maybe I'm just slow-witted. Could someone explain to me why openSUSE is more about open minds than other distros? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org