Simple Questions(REF: October 2009 Archives )

[bhutto aamir]

1. What is Fedora? 
i am just writing it as a simple user!
(am not giving any technical or any organizational behavior, term/policy comments)
I don't disagree with any other previous statements which users made on the above mentioned topic but to me fedora or fedora project is something where a user and a developer can communicate (about things products packages releases) a place where people can invoke idea's. There are so many Win* programs which i love but i never took an initiative to know the people behind that project, or to complement them,perhaps because they are doing what they are getting paid to do. Thus i find fedora project as an emotional bound between user and developer. * There are many other aspects too but most of them have been *figured-out* in previous discussions.

2. Target Audience:
The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow.Then our target audience should be Pre-existing *nix user's, not everyone because there are so many hurdles in "FOSS" way,(beside a pre-existing user is an easy target as he/she do knows everything about the O/s and distro's so he should get the picture quick)
It's very hard to target everyone as our audience because a normal user is quite comfortable with his/her current/present O/S, this is all because of strategic alliance marketing efforts. Commercial O/s vendor's have already made alliances with  parallel computer manufactures, And if i am new to computers and i have just bought a Dell/Sony/Hp/etc* notebook which comes with pre-installed windows xp or vista with all the latest software's and gadgets with date back-up/recovery support then what will be the ultimate reason to encourage me to migrate to fedora ? Adding more to this i got an excellent career too with MS like by doing some certifications / courses to enhance not only my computer skills but also get a chance to groom my career for better opportunities :-)))

What i think is that fedora should start its certifications/courses to get people more involved with it, it will serve as a test ground or more like a medium to prove your skills level, having skill full people around the globe can easily helps us in migrating organizations from *** to fedora with an ease and comfort. They should be more confident in taking these steps if only they would have a hand full of fedora certified developer's administrators. Many IT institutes running their private projects educating people and helping them in their preparation for *IT CERTIFICATIONS* thus if fedora starts its own certification programs then i guess there would be a huge demand of this, and it will also act as helping ground for fedora.

Anyways these are just my comments/suggestions.

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We should use Codenames - "Constantine" whats next ?? "Rock" ??