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Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as +</I>><i> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who +</I>><i> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to uphold. +</I>><i> >> I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we _can be a +</I>><i> >> successful Linux distro_. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes +</I>><i> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering +</I>><i> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too +</I>><i> > diffult... do you agree? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Marcello +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever +</I>><i> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows +</I>><i> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc +</I>><i> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software +</I> +That is in fact a demographic, the dissatisfied Windows Power user. But it's +a very small one. And in fact the "Linux Seeker" let's call her, will get +that Mageia is Linux without needing to be told blatantly in the branding. + +The problem with the Linux brand for the unsophisticated End User is that it +is seen as a geek only toy and so for a large proportion of the market it is +seen as a disincentive ie: "It's too complicated" + +What I would like to see is Users "Discover" Linux through Mageia. IOW +install it, it does all they want it to do and then they discover it's linux. +Two good things about this. +One: it gives the user a buzz, because she suddenly discovers "Wow I can use +that complicated Linux Thing" +Two: It means her horizons are broadened because now she can look at other +Linuxes in a different light +><i> +</I>><i> then he looks for a distro and start using it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to +</I>><i> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use. +</I> +That's a "Close Community Network" Windows has it and it's the thing that +Ubuntu have built so well and it's why I saw the family thing as a good target +because a Family is the smallest "Close Community Network" + + +Cheers +GL +-- +Graham Lauder, +OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ +<A HREF="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html</A> + +OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. + +INGOTs Assessor Trainer +(International Grades in Open Technologies) +www.theingots.org +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002455.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002457.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2456">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2456">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2456">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2456">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |