question for board members

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 05/07/2010 03:55 PM, inode0 wrote:

> Seeing massive startup failure among new contributors is one reason I
> think the project  should focus more on targeting contributors
> directly, rather than hoping to siphon them off from an increase in
> the user base.
Fully agreed. It's the contributors who supply the bricks the distro 
consists of. If the hurdles imposed on them become too high or if the 
distro diverges too much from their needs, they will leave (or never 
enter/abstain).

> I see potential users and potential contributors as
> largely disjoint sets at this point.
Agreed, contributors in first place contribute something because they 
have own interests in what they contribute. The fact, "normal users" may 
find their works useful or that their works may add a to making Fedora 
more useful, in first place, is a by-product.

> There are reasons to target both audiences,
> but I think they need to be treated as different target
> audiences.
Agreed. The claim of "every user" being a "potential contributor" does 
not apply. These groups and their interests partially overlap, but are 
far from being identical.

Ralf