On Tuesday 09 November 2010 05:15:17 Kostas Koudaras wrote: > First of all the title is a bit ironic. > Well I started thinking about it after what I read on a previous > marketing list post with subject "Wrong marketing OBS". > So now I would like to discuss the parts of openSUSE project because I > feel a bit confused about it and I believe I am not the only one. I > mean as I know parts of the openSUSE project are the SUSE Studio, the > openSUSE distribution, openSUSE LI-F-E and the OBS. > -Is there something else?( I don't know if we can include Yast in all > this)
I normally speak about these pillars: * distribution * community * communication * tools Btw. we have no formal definition what an openSUSE sub-project is ;) > > -When you make a search for openSUSE project in our wiki in order > to find out what the openSUSE Project is you get that > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Project , where you read: The openSUSE > project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux > everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux > distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly > manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software > community. > Nowhere you read about the other parts of the project than the > distribution,at list that is what I think except if I'm missing > something and if I do is it enough? > > I recommend to talk about what should we find in an openSUSE project > booth other than information about the distribution and organize teams > to create that kind of information(at least for the parts we don't > have) and material. good idea. So, what do others would add for a large booth: First: * distribution * OBS (main part of tools) and SUSE Studio * community * communication Second - lower prio: * YaST * libzypp/zypper * openSUSE Education (LI-F-E) * openSUSE Medical > I see people making great work in a variety of things around the > openSUSE project (OBS,LI-F-E and more) but because of lack of > promotion it gets behind and all we promote is the distribution. Well > we are not Ubuntu(it is just an example due to its popularity, I don't > mean anything else) and our goal should not be to become because I > believe we are something different and better and the distribution is > and should be a part of the whole idea around our project. > Let us don't leave distribution choke the Project. Will you collect the responses and take care to present this on the wiki, please? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, a...@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
