On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:16:22AM +0100, email.listen@googlemail.com wrote:
What I wanted to say is that a lot of former SUSE users where very busy in promoting SUSE in their local region. Which in my eyes can be seen as an active participation. Those people often plowed the fields where SUSE later on made it's buisines (according to the OSDL survey [1] it where theese users who asked for Free Software in their companies or as administrators installed the first 'inofficial' SUSE servers in their companies) And such a 'plowing the fields' will be very helpfull for Novell too. Some of those people _have_ experience in promoting SUSE so thats why I think it might be interesting to have a focus on them first. It should be more efficient reactivating theese people than only qualifying novice participants (nevertheless that should be done too).
I agree with you. It is the way how to reach these people is where we have a different opinion. I would want to do this by quality. Giving the people what they want and expect as openSUSE. A forum might be one of the things they would want. If you do it by sending mail or other form of advertisement, you will get perhaps more people. But also for the wrong reason. houghi -- Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -- Mark Twain