Gesendet: Mittwoch, 05. Juni 2019 um 18:28 Uhr Von: "Xaver Hellauer"
An: "opensuse-project@opensuse.org" Betreff: Re: [opensuse-project] Project name and logo discussion ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, June 5, 2019 5:31 PM, Ish Sookun
wrote: On 6/3/19 3:53 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I really was upset when it was changed from SuSE and again SUSE, but understand the need to move to openSUSE. I believe the effort needed to resolve all the necessary issues is much better expended on further development of our distribution. and Leap and Tumbleweed should remain distinctive sub "brand" names for openSUSE.
How about having a foundation name different as the distro name and we get to keep openSUSE? Something like:
+--------------------+ | Example Foundation | +---------+----------+ | | v +-----+----+ | openSUSE | +----+-----+ | v--------+----------v +------+ +------------+ | Leap | | Tumbleweed | +------+ +------+-----+ | | v------+-----v +-------+ +---------+ | Kubic | | MicroOS | +-------+ +---------+
How about just giving a new name to the foundation loosely tied to the existing brand (e.g. Squamata Foundation) and just dropping the "openSUSE" without replacement. The distributions do have names already. So basically "openSUSE Tumbleweed" becomes "Tumbleweed" and "openSUSE Leap" becomes "Leap" with highly visible release names (maybe different lizards) like Debian's and Ubuntu's releases. In my opinion this would be beneficial to marketing. Everybody cares about "Disco Dingo", but "15.2" sounds quite boring. Dropping the "openSUSE" has the following benefits: * Seemingly cutting ties to a Novell/Microsoft Deal/"Corporate Overlord" past without creating "SUSE is abandonning openSUSE" FUD. * Tumbleweed and Leap are recognizable brands with very different audiences, they don't need an umbrella name (like Fedora and CentOS don't have one either). * Not being called anything *SUSE* might help making Packman (or at least some of the packman packages) more official, which would help making it more easy to install them (Ubuntu-easy, not the existing "easier than before, but still not really noob-friendly). Mageia for example got rid of the PLF repo, when they were no longer Mandrake/Mandriva branded.
+---------------------+ | Squamata Foundation | +---------+-----------+ | | v | v--------+----------v +------+ +------------+ | Leap | | Tumbleweed | +------+ +------+-----+ | | v------+-----v +-------+ +---------+ | Kubic | | MicroOS | +-------+ +---------+
That's a nice idea. But our main goal "financial goal" is not really compatible with letting openSUSE away. That has the reason that we need new sponsors. Many companies want to sponsor us as "openSUSE" and nothing else. The problem is that they are not allowed to do that in our situation now. How should we receive such sponsoring offers again with such a change of the name? We have to wait many years again until receiving such offers. You can watch the difference of budget at open source events at different booths of Linux distributions.
We might not address the limitations expressed in previous emails regarding usage of the SUSE wording, but we could have user groups, local associations, domain names registered under "Example Foundation" without requiring SUSE permission. It would solve the inconvenience of getting sponsorship & funding which currently has to go through SUSE.
Local user groups & associations would perhaps still be required to agree to a terms of use for the "openSUSE" wording.
Regards,
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