Hey, On 11.07.24 09:37, Attila Pinter wrote:
On Thursday, July 11th, 2024 at 12:15 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
We have another problem: not enough contributors to sustain this community in the long run. If we don't fix that it doesn't matter if we protect our democratic processes better in case of abuse. No people, no democratic processes, no abuse.
You will laugh, but I had people come up to me straight up telling me that they don't understand the relationship between openSUSE and SUSE and they go back to using whatever distro they came from, and wouldn't even consider contributing to "SUSE's pocket". Some others just don't like SUSE so they refuse also. Rebranding, and having a clear differentiation between the two is a pretty good solution to this issue, and we should probably do it until we're being asked nice, and we can.
SUSE is an integral part of the openSUSE community and if you don't like SUSE at all or don't like SUSE profiting from openSUSE (and openSUSE profiting from SUSE) then this is maybe not the right place for you? You think the symbiosis of SUSE and openSUSE will go away if the letters S, U and E vanish from this community's brand? Think again... And even if that would be the case and we could convince the N people that have this problem to contribute to $NEWBRAND, is this a good use of our communities resources? Will N be a large enough number so this is worth the effort of a complete re-branding? Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson