[marketing] Re: Do we want to promote Fedora as "Linux"? How *do* we want people to find us?

[Sean robinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear what I was trying to say. I was saying we
should make a LTS edition for beginners and keep the current edition of
Workstation for testers.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
wrote:

>  On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Sean robinson wrote:
>  > Honestly, the ideal thing to do would be to market it as it is: "Fedora
>  > Linux," It gives our distribution some independence.
>
>  Independence from what?
>
>  > We should also start focusing on the market of testers.
>
>  Is there a market of testers? Who are they, what do they want? Are they
>  interested in testing all things, or just certain specific things?
>
>  > Because we are a bleeding edge distro.
>
>  We aren't, though. We strive to be a leading edge distro *without* the
>  blood.
>
>
>  > The android path seems like a better method to reach the kind of people
>  > that Fedora seems to reach in its current marketing approach. Bleeding
>  edge
>  > testers, If we wanted to market it towards your typical computer user,
>  the
>  > development team needs to make a LTS edition. Imagine a more
>  true-to-fedora
>  > version of the Chapeau remix. Chapeau is honestly a few steps ahead of us
>  > in marketing to normal-PC users. The faster we can turn Fedora into the
>  > first result when someone searches "Beginner Linux" The larger amount of
>  > people we could be promoting Fedora, linux, and programming to could help
>  > the Fedora distro massively. But we need to get in contact with the
>  > development team regarding making an LTS Edition
>
>  Is "beginner linux" what we want? How does that match with testers, or
>  with leading or "bleeding" edge?
>
>
>  --
>  Matthew Miller
>  <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
>  Fedora Project Leader
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