A question to this list regarding Fedora as a Product

[David Nalley]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Nelson Marques <07721 at ipam.pt> wrote:
>
>  Thanks. This article shows a couple of thoughts, some of them might be
> catastrophic, and segmenting the market isn't a bad thing, in corporate
> business it's most likely the best strategy, and it can and should be
> used also on projects like this one.

What works in corporate settings rarely works well in community settings.

>  It's probably sad to point this example, but look at what Canonical is
> doing. They segmented the market in a attractive way and they are
> starting to collect from it (not that others don't do it, but they do it
> in a more shy way).
>
>  Looks like we have a challenge :)
>
>  I'm gonna keep lurking for some more time and try to get inside the
> Fedora mentality and hopefully might help in the near future, once I'm
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>  From what I could understand, two goals to reach:
>
>  - Increase the number of Fedora users
>  - Increase the number of Fedora contributors

Well I'd say that's a misconception.
Fedora is concerned with growing it's contributor base and advancing
the state of free software.

Fedora isn't at all concerned with the "getting mindshare above all
else" type of mentality that most orgs have. While we want and like
users, I don't think that we actively try and seek out what people
want as driving our decisions.
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>
>  If this is correct, within up to a month, I'm gonna submit a small
> paper for review on this list with a small strategy on how we might
> accomplish that.
>
>  Thanks for all who have contributed pointing good sources of
> information on my quest for data.
>
>  Nelson.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 06:36 -0600, Kamisamanou Burgess wrote:
>> Take a look at this blog post by John Poelstra:
>> http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/getting-fedora-out-of-the-if-then-loop/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:11, Nelson Marques <07721 at ipam.pt> wrote:
>>
>>          Hi all,
>>
>>          I would like to ask something from this list to help me
>>         understand a
>>         bit more of Fedora. I am new to the list, and I'm currently
>>         trying to
>>         assimilate more information through the Fedora Project wiki
>>         before I can
>>         contribute. This is important for me to know.
>>
>>          - How does Fedora positions itself amongst other
>>         distributions. What
>>         values do we try to transmit, what image should be presented
>>         to the
>>         users (new and current).
>>
>>          - How is differentiation presented in communication.
>>
>>          - What is main segment we trying to reach.
>>
>>          - What is the role of productivity in Fedora communication.
>>
>>          - What are the main goals at a short term (1 year).
>>
>>          Thanks in advance,
>>
>>          Nelson.
>>
>>          PS: feel free to point any online documentation that might
>>         exist
>>         regarding this points.
>>
>>
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