Board efforts: scope, concept, and permission?

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> I think that the Fedora Project's target audience needs to be people who
> want to work on open source operating systems.  If you want to market the
> Fedora Project, that's the audience that needs to be addressed.
>
> If you want to market a physical product, like the Fedora Desktop Spin, then
> that should be a decision made below the Board level.  Making a decision
> about the target audience of the various distributions that we have limits
> the choices of the people who want to work on open source operating systems.
> Making a target audience decision at the SIG level widens the choices as
> marketing/artistic/documentation/etc people can choose which audiences they
> want to address via which medium.
>
> -Toshio
>
<snip>

+1 Toshio, well said.

-AdamM

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