Attention / Interest / Desire / Action, getfedora.org, or why marketing 'the Fedora project' is a bad idea.

Mike MacCana mikem at cyber.com.au
Sat Jun 18 12:39:03 UTC 2005


Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
>> Really? You think more people want to contribute to Fedora than to 
>> use it?
>
>
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com is currently  focussed towards end users

Let's look at the opening line of fedora.redhat.com:

"The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and 
supported by the Fedora community. It is also a proving ground for new 
technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is 
not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc."

So far readers don't know:
- That Fedora is a Linux distro, or an Operating System
- Why it's good
- Where to get it
- Where to get help for it

They do know:
- That its Open Source
- That stuff in it may end up in RHEL
- That it is not supported by Red Hat

Given this, are yous sure fedora.redhat.com is currently focused towards 
end users?

Mike




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