* Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> [2010-06-29 14:56]:
We came up with these three large proposals and first tried to "blend" them together but could not find directly a really good combination, so decided to publish these as "pure" strategies.
We have two traps - a too narrow strategy and a too broad one. If somebody likes to propose a merging of two strategies, please go ahead and propose a new "blended" strategy.
I have made a proposal on this list for a more general, ecompassing strategy, delegating these "pure" strategies to those who would need to spend their free- or worktime to implement them. In other words it would consider openSUSE as an umbrella project targeting different audiences and integrating diverse subprojects into a coherent whole.
Regarding too broad: Let's be practical: Whom do we design the default installation for? Whom do we want to reach with the openSUSE wiki entrance
Even now there is not really a default install, sure, if you install from DVD KDE is preselected but three other desktops can be easily selected and there are different LiveCDs to choose from. I see it as a feature that users are given a choice and that we can accommodate KDE, GNOME, XFCE, and LXDE users (and assisting technical less capable users to make an informed choice is a matter of providing documentation if we desire to address them as a target audience). While there is a bias towards desktop usage today due to the short lifetime it does not preclude the possibility of forming a team providing LTS for a subset of packages as long as there are enough contributors sustaining such a subproject. Now for the wiki entrance page it would be simple to provide a short summary of the projects that the project consists of and then provide links to subsections directing _different_ target audiences to their area of interest which might be "Desktop usage", "Server/cloud usage" etc.
page? If we are too broad, we reach nobody because everybody feels lost. So, what's the right balance?
Isn't the core problem that it is currently unclear what openSUSE stands for? At least IMO there is a severe deficit in marketing, but I'm not so sure that it is simply a matter of adopting a new strategy, but rather of *communicating* existing strengths and unique features (i.e. competitive advantages) both of the product and the community. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org