Tirsdag den 22. juni 2010 10:20:39 skrev Guido Berhoerster:
As I see it, adopting one of the proposed strategy which all seem to significantly narrow down the scope of the project follow an exclusionary logic possibly alienating current and potential users and contributors which have a different focus in the project. I'd like to propose a very simple alternative, which in contrast to the other proposals aims to include and accommodate:
openSUSE should be (remain?) a general-purpose OS.
But you do not address the problems we're trying to solve. 1) Provide a clear and unique identity for openSUSE and a good answer to the question "Why openSUSE?" 2) Create focus and direction for the project and make more effective use of our limited resources I agree that the strategy shouldn't be *too* exclusionary, but in targetting everyone, we'd almost be targetting noone :-) As for the poweruser strategy. In my mind powerusers don't have to be kernel hackers or guru sysadmins, in my mind powerusers covers say: * ~10% of all PC users * ~50% of all Linux users * ~75% of existing openSUSE users * ~100% of existing openSUSE contributors And not only the targetted audience can use it. While Fedora clearly targets techies and free software enthusiasts, some casual users use it too - and even some businesses use it on production servers (wikipedia did until recently). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org