On Monday 08 November 2010 05:47:56 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > The > problem we have is that we still project ourselves as a distro ratther > than as a project. We need to change the way we present ourselves, and > definitely the final strategy statement will help emphasize that. > > There are more than just the distro, more than just OBS. For example, > there's the openSUSE Book Builder project, which will eventually allow > anyone to write books using oBB.
It is normal that we advertise distro as that is where all started and for a long time all other services, like oBS, documentation and translation efforts, as a matter of fact whole infrastructure, was designed as a support for distro. Even current strategy discussions are limited to what kind of distro we want to be, so if you want to see broader discussion then strategy discussion has to be renamed as "openSUSE distribution strategy", and should start another discussion about Project strategy. > For example, OBS is called openSUSE Build Service. > But OBS is not just for openSUSE. Right, but 80% of our talk is how it serves openSUSE, which is fine from historic perspective. Now it is used by few other smaller and bigger organizations and companies, so we should change our perspective. Name as it is now should be fine. It is openSUSE product. We should focus on the fact that few other entities use openSUSE Build Service, as a software: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_installations and point to this, or better to beautify article and then point to it. The oBB is news for me. Our document writers are as usually too modest. I got to search around to find what it is: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Documentation_Contribute and http://conference.opensuse.org/indico/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=71&confId=0 -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
