[Fedora-marketing-list] Raleigh, we have a problem ...

[Stephen Krenzel]

    While it'd be nice if we had more user awareness about such polls, I
wouldn't read too much into the results. It is based on 14,500 votes, which
while being a large number, isn't necessarily representative of the whole
linux community. It'd make good publicity for Fedora to be ranked higher,
but I don't think this is a user-side issue. It is probably either a "Fedora
users don't read desktoplinux" problem (I know I don't, and I'm a huge
geek), or a "Fedora users weren't made aware of the poll" issue. Sometimes
other distributions put links into their forums and stuff to polls like
this. So I guess it comes down to, should we be more vocal about announcing
polls that Fedora is in, i.e. putting a link on the front page of
FedoraProject.org and Fedora forums, or should we just let nature take its
course and let Fedora users stumble onto the polls themselves. The only
thing I see wrong with the first option is that I can already see a headline
on Digg with something like "Fedora skews poll results by pushing users to
vote for them", which could backfire on us.
Regards,
    Steve

On 9/17/06, Gerold Kassube <gerold at lugd.org> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> as you all can see and read in
> http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html we are ranged behind
> all other ...
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> What should / can / must we do, to get more acceptance on the user-side?
> Do we need a strengh marketing concept?
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