* Rupert Horstkötter <rhorstkoetter@opensuse.org> [2010-06-25 11:41]:
We want to grow the contributing community and to achieve this we urgently need to INTERFACE with the user community as our chance is to 1. recruit contributors out of those and 2. get as much feedback about our product back to the contributing community in order to improve it.
Without a clear marketing/market focus and acceptance of the customers' crowd needs, demands and communication media they are used to we'll fail to achieve our common goal outlined above. Thus I'm talking about changing people's mind, thus I'm asking for forums participation, thus I'm focusing on the social part of the problem. The situation as is isn't changeable and is there by definition .. It's therefore inappropriate to discuss about their pros and cons BUT what we can do is being smart and adopt to reality, i.e. interface with the users in a given communication structure.
Either we, at some point in time understand, that we work/contribute for the customer and the success of the openSUSE distribution/project OR we'll, at least from my perspective, ultimately fail in growing this beast here (our community) to something effective and forceful!
To point this out and to raise people's attention on that particular matter I initially decided to join this discussion. I hope it'll be fruitful :-)
Very well put, now we're back at discussing strategies. The above paragraphs also restate the reasons why I think the three initial strategy proposals are actually harmful as they try impose a rather arbitrary direction and focus on the project (as evident from the great divergence between these proposals) from above while disregarding a large part of our _existing_ user base. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org