Marketing the workstation as suitable for both developers and normal end users

[Matt Harwood]

I thought the team may be interested in a post I've just written about
Fedora's focus and perfection for developers!

https://medium.com/@mattharwood/fedora-the-platform-for-developers-4373012f9f3b

Thoughts?


On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 07:35 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I've seen a little chatter over this, but I think the devel-list
> > thread
> > blows it out of proportion. The general reaction -- including the
> > press
> > -- doesn't seem to share this concern.
> >
> > Actually, I'm a little concerned that we're not getting strong enough
> > messaging the other way. We really want to developers to feel like we
> > care about _them_. It's going to take a little while to establish
> > that.
>
> Hrm, maybe. I just read another piece of feedback on the websites
> mailing[1] list that goes:
>
> > Just noticed that fedora have just launched a new website [1], must
> > say I like the more simplistic theme (guess it will be much easier to
> > get maintain) also its great that its very straight forward to access
> > the download page. That I say have some concerns about the workstation
> > page [2].
> >
> > It feels very much like workstation page target engineers/developers
> > and not the advantage user, have fedora given up that market?
> >
>
>
> [1]
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2014-December/012647.html
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
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