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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike MacCana wrote:

> 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


It is but it just assumes a different level of expertise than a person 
who doesnt know about computers and operating systems. If you are 
willing to work on improving that, a prototype design similar to the one 
proposed for fedoraproject.org would be useful

regards
Rahul