On 2 August 2015 at 14:00, Dimitris Papapoulios
And if we do that then what? It's like throwing all translators, artists, people on the marketing team etc (who many of them might not be power users) under the bus. It's like saying thanks for all your trouble and what you do for openSUSE but yeah our distro is not for you.
Well, for 10 years we've struggled with both Artwork and Marketing, and I would say that while we still have some very dedicated individuals who are still doing excellent work in this area, I would not describe openSUSE as having either an Marketing or Artwork 'team' at the moment And that leads to questions like "Why?" - which has obvious answers like "We're a very technically orientated project" - which leads to thoughts like "How can we turn that weakness into a strength?" - which is partially how we ended up with the concept with the tagline "The Makers Choice" It's about embracing what we *are* and using that as a key message in our marketing so we can *grow* and *extend* as a Project. "The Makers Choice" hopefully gives those interested in Marketing and Artwork concepts to hang onto, a starting point from which they can build upon so we DO have a Marketing/Artwork team going forward. I've been in enough meetings with enough people involved in our previous Marketing teams to know that a starting point like this has been the #1 thing required by the openSUSE Project with regards to Marketing for the several years. Now we have it, we no longer have an excuse to spend our time pontificating about what our message should be, lets get going with actually spreading the word. -- As for Translators, I'm sorry, the suggestion that our translators are not at least power users is laughable Given they're using SVN, trunks, checkouts, PO and POT files and contributing to openSUSE as part of their regular contributing business, they are the very definition of Power Users who contribute, or, to put in a single word _Makers_ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org