Giuseppe - I understand where you are coming from, perhaps I can make a
suggestion - update the Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats page
[1]. SWOT analysis is an excellent method for developing communications and
marketing strategy.

You mentioned "war" on Ubuntu, but I disagree that Ubuntu or indeed any
other GNU/Linux distro is a threat. The traditional threat to Fedora (and
any other distro) has been Microsoft Windows with its over 90% market
share. I believe that anyone understanding the basics of a GNU/Linux system
will at some point become curious about Fedora - it's far more of a barrier
to make a first jump to a distro if one only knows Windows.

There is however a new threat, and which caught even Microsoft off guard:
the form factor sea change from general-purpose PCs to handheld devices
(tablets/smartphones) in the past three years, which killed off netbooks
and are rapidly shrinking the PC market [2]. Microsoft which marketed its
"familiarity" and "compatibility" during the netbook boom (which began with
preinstalled Linux distros) has responded with the tile interface,
confusing traditional Widows users and I daresay leaving them open to other
suggestions.

Which brings us to a fabulous opportunity: the official end-of-life of
Windows XP (and its chief application suite, Office 2003) in 12 days [3].
It has been estimated that there are roughly 500 to 600 million (!) PCs
connected to the Internet running XP [4] and the tech publications are all
running guides now outlining options for XP users. This is a great moment
for a press campaign describing how easy it is to upgrade to Fedora, the
security benefits, examples of Office 2003 compatibility, etc.

Sean.


1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/SWOT
2. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2647517
3. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-support.aspx
4.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0&qptimeframe=M



On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Giuseppe Pignataro
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Ok folks now I have your attention.
>
> We have to start to make some noise about Fedora.
>
> We don't have the basics things,that are the minimum to start.
>
> First, no official page on social network. This isn't a good thing.
>
> I have tried to search fedora on Facebook and this
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-informatica/655798371147619
> and this https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Project/103128663061181
>
> are the only things that came out.
>
> We need an official facebook page,have you seen the ubuntu page on
> facebook https://www.facebook.com/ubuntulinux
> 978k people liked that page.
>
> This can be first part of the war.
>
> Google+ and all the other social can have the official page and the
> official account.
>
> We need to start to make war at ubuntu, on the web there are 1000 about
> Ubuntu vs 10 about fedora.(The number isn't really this but it's to give
> you an idea.)
>
> We have to change the way that people see fedora. When I speak with
> someone that are new to Linux world they say me that "Ubuntu is simple".
> Ubuntu is a distro for users and if they now fedora they say me that
> fedora is for engineer or for people that really know Linux. We have to
> change this idea.
>
> We can start with writing article about configuring this or how to
> install this, and how to trying this other on the fedora magazine
> firstly.
>
> The problem, as I can see,is that the Fedora community is to close in
> himself.
>
> If we can't change this we are out of the game.
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