2014-12-23 23:56 GMT+01:00 Kate Lebedeff <[email protected]>: > Hi all > > A quick Loomio for date of the campaign shows that majority votes to > start in the beginning of January. > > Those who speak more than 1 language, please check out Transifex to get > the text of the campaign translated. > > Please think of your local press resources, in your language, which could > be interested in telling our story, if you submit the text of the campaign, > they can place a story with the link about us, this is quite often practice > and will help a lot. > > I will call again for this in the first days of January, but if you will > be bored during some minutes of the holidays, please recall this:) > > We should be prepared with translations and contacts in local press before > the campaign starts. > > Let's play it well:) > > Texts you can find here: http://www.indiegogo.com/project/preview/41b19ffb > > Big thanks to all and happy holidays if you have them:) > I don't mean to be a dick or negative or anything, but as I pointed out and stressed expressing was that in order for such a campaign to have much success, you need a real incentive for people that's not die-hard fans and for those to sponsor the project beyond such motivations as well. >From reading the indiegogo site, I don't really see much of this, and as currently and sadly enough stands, I can't imagine the huge amount of goodwill towards a project which has been virtually dead to people for several years, with the following years rather appaling controversies together with a dwindling amount of developers, development, R&D, leadership and popularity has dropped to an all-time low for the distributions released since 2011.
I made some suggestions earlier on how, some people were quite positive towards them, yet I don't see much if any of such.. If I had the motivation and the excessively good will I once had, I'd be sure to come up with more ideas and go a little bit further by even implementing them.. For supporting OMV as a distribution based on it's quality, I last year (or the year before:p) actually rather bougth a Mageia usb distro key in stead... Sorry for being overly blunt and probably thread on a lot of feets, especially amongst those with less than >5 years of involvement and experience in this field, but if you wanna succeed you need some tough love: * Really get your act together as a project, it needs to managed and some sense of leadership, not just a bunch of people for which contributions are highly sporadic, yet their say in matters remains the same even if their relevance to the project is nil * Get a source of revenue, relying on good will towards what's often and for periods has had the image of an ogre is not where you'll be making your money in such a situation. ** The Linux Destop as a commercial product is no longer viable in the form as it once was, pushing out new releases and just automatically assume and expect for things to be great is really more of a underpanty gnomes businiss model.. *** For the ARM market OTOH there's still a lot to conquer as due to the proprietary nature of libraries etc. that they rely on and needs proper integration per board family rather than getting it for free from upstream (ie. here there's finally some new ground with no big dominating players, making it rather easy to penetrate and increase popularity/adoption). Not a single ARM release AFAIK has been released, the only board that got introduced support for recently was for the Wandboard Quad and done by me. Just building an ARM package repository, but not providing any releases that they would be used for doesn't really get us anywhere nor allows us to show off it's quality. ** You need to look at where and how to differentiate and set you apart, not being just another boring distro that might look good, yet no less boring than the competition, nor is much more else offered as to what makes it special but worse QA and poorer package selection. I'd write down more and come up with suggestions, ideas, advice and potentially features & functionality that could be marketed for ie.. FOSDEM, but while I know that a constantly growing amount of people involved share much of the same feelings and finds them quite frustrating and loosing interest as a result, without a sign of good will and neophyte know-it-all'ism/pride put aside, all I can say is good luck, you gonna need it. (For those who dismisses me as a negative troublemaker, you might wanna try get an update about OMA's financial situation and critical issues wrt. to support & fund keeping the infrastructure up and running) Me personally, I won't spend a dime on the current kickstarter as-is, my time and money are still far more well spent on my contributions to the project anyways... For the several people who has contacted me in private with their concerns about all the various aspects of organization and project for quite a while now, now would be a good time to step up, otherwise you'll might just find me stepping down again... -- Regards, Per Øyvind
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