Fedora Board Strategic Working Group

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
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>
> Right, spins are much more than just a subset of packages.  Sure, you
> have the base desktop spins like xfce, lxde, gnome, moblin, sugar, kde,
> but you also have higher level spins built on top of those.  These
> spins, such the electronics lab, security lab, or the design suite, are
> custom molded operating systems designed to lower the bar for
> accomplishing a common subset of tasks, by not only providing custom
> menus and defaults, but ideally by fostering a community of contributers
> and users that are passionate about using Fedora to solve many different
> types of problems.
>
> I don't see spins as being a detriment to Fedora, actually quite the
> opposite.  I see them as helping us cultivate a variety of
> sub-communities that help to make it easy to do incredible things with
> Fedora.  With these these sub-communities each with their own clearly
> defined goals, the question of our unified "Target Audience" disappears,
> as we now have many.
>
> luke
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+1

-AdamM

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