Rejy, thank you for the response. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Rejy M Cyriac <[email protected]> wrote: > Since my primary focus is on getting more people to discover, use > and love Fedora, rather than in getting folks to contribute *directly* > to Fedora, I do not feel a requirement to track the number of recipients > of the FreeMedia program who contribute to the Fedora community.
I agree with the general notion that we tend to take a few things for granted. I consider myself fortunate to have access to the internet (even in its most rudimentary form) well before a larger cross-section of my social circle could. I am going to ask the question one more time - "What does the FreeMedia program intend to achieve?" The part of your response that I've snipped above (it was a deliberate choice) would indicate that there is an element of charity involved in it. The program seems to be a clearing-house or, a single-window to distribute printed media to anyone who writes in (except, of course, the duplicates). A part of my original post was around whether the FreeMedia program is indeed helping the recipients to "discover, use and love Fedora". For what it is worth, we do not have any idea if the media is being used to create installations. To gauge whether the program/effort is actually leading to discovery, usage and love we need to figure out a way to be able to state with a degree of accuracy that it is so. The process of participation by the recipients into the community is a method of contribution. And I am not so sure that we see a lot of those. Not even on users@, if not on india@ Asking volunteers to spend time, money and effort in distributing media that might not be aiding the original objective is certainly not the best way to treat volunteers (even if they are content in continuing to do this and aren't complaining). The project itself has a fiduciary reason to seek more detail as to whether this is the most direct, effective, relevant and optimal method to create a community of Fedora users who love the project. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
