On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 11:18 AM David Mulder <dmulder@suse.com> wrote:
Thanks Neal for posting your platform! I like what you've said about increasing project visibility. Could you elaborate on what you plan to do here? You mentioned you've worked with other projects. What have you seen done to increase visibility in other projects that you think could benefit openSUSE?
Right now, our advocacy efforts are very haphazard and poor Doug does far too much on his own. This is definitely something we can do better. We have plenty of people who are passionate about openSUSE, but we lack an organized means to tell the world *why* openSUSE is awesome. I think this is something worth prioritizing to fix. What I would like to do here is evolve the structure of the project so that we have a dedicated sub-organization that people can collaborate under to drive advocacy for openSUSE. I don't know if you saw Ben Cotton's talk at oSLO on Fedora's governance[1], but he mentions that Fedora has a Mindshare Committee[2] which coordinates advocacy efforts around Fedora. I think this is something worth seeing if we can adapt into openSUSE and help make advocates of openSUSE successful in making openSUSE something people would consider in their top-tier choices (along with Fedora and Ubuntu). [1]: https://youtu.be/wogwykobbr0 [2]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/ -- Neal Gompa (ID: Pharaoh_Atem)