Appreciate the input, interesting to know that it somewhat matches the
current timeline.
thank you,
Imad
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:02 PM Simon Lees
On 18/06/2019 20:50, Imad Aldoj wrote:
Hi, Today [through my usual unplanned wiki ride] I landed on this page https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Strategy from the Novell era (2010) and it was a really interesting read, mainly the SWOT analysis. Surprisingly, (or not) a lot of it is still relevant today, even tho on the other hand, a lot happened in the tech world.
How *and if* the community demography itself has changed? what challenges do we face today? and where are we heading next? I think this is a good time to look back again and analyze the outcome of the last decade and maybe how other distros did compared to openSUSE (specifically Fedora and Arch)
Looking at the last few years, what's your view? would be cool to hear some opinions of people who did the last round.
We as a board briefly touched on this at the start of our board face to face this year as a start to our foundation discussions. From that i'll pull the two most relevant differences out.
#1 openSUSE is no longer just a project that just makes Linux distro's we are responsible for a wide number of tools for a wide number of people, whether its a distro or something like obs, openqa or yast these days all these projects are considered part of openSUSE.
#2 openSUSE is now a project where people are basically free to do what they want, and people doing whatever they want tends to drive the strategy of the project, openSUSE has no group looking at whats going on and telling people they should be focusing on this or that, we just let people work on whats important to them and that seems to work pretty well.
For reference the work done in this area that you were referring too was mostly done around the concept of creating a foundation, which didn't eventuate at that time.
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