Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [opensuse-project] Strategy Discussion From: Andreas Jaeger
To: opensuse-project@opensuse.org Date: Sat May 22 2010 05:52:41 GMT+0900 (JST) Please note that the strategy discussion looks at the big picture first - and then we'll have to see what this means for all the details,
I'd like to go back to basic once again and talk about fundamental strategies for openSUSE, that is, what we should aim at as openSUSE Project.
+1.
In marketing point of view, it is very important to define who are our *customers* and imagine what are their needs. "Of course, everyone and everything!" would be the easiest but an empty answer for this question and let us argue in a circle. Who are our customers may depends upon where we stand. As a distributer, users (and potencial users) are our main customers. But as a project, developers and contributers might be the more important customers than mere users. Obviously, the strategies will be differ from each other.
I think we can take a step further back - what are our intentions with openSUSE, i.e. what are openSUSEs reasons for being? Back when it was SuSE Linux, the intention was quite clear and business-like - selling lots of boxed copies, thereby creating the income stream to fund continued development and support. If that business model still applies, the openSUSE project needs to work towards that. If the model has changed, we must try to understand what it is now, and then steer the project that way. If, for instance, the project is aiming to become primarily a volunteer effort, strongly backed by Novell funding (infrastructure, staff etc), we need to aim at attracting volunteer contributors and developers. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org