On 6/6/10, Gregory Pittman wrote: > Something which I think is not so easy to describe is that, when we > consider the advantages that proprietary software has over the FOSS > projects, there is the important area of marketing and promotion. > Marketing is not synonymous with advertising, but involves the > accumulation of input from users and potential users about their needs, > habits, workflows, then taking that information to pull together > information to fill their knowledge void about what FOSS can do in > aggregate, but also give feedback to the projects about important > directions for projects to take, individually and > collectively/collaboratively.
This is an interesting idea. However the problem is that one would have to monitor lots of existing communication channels: IRCs, mailing lists, bug trackers and so on. Not that it shouldn't be done, mind you :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
