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<B>Michael Scherer</B>
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<PRE>Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 09:06 +1300, Graham Lauder a écrit :
><i> On Tuesday 19 Oct 2010 04:27:29 Frank Griffin wrote:
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><i> > In FOSS, it doesn't. If enough people agree with your objective, you
</I>><i> > may find that you have enough critical mass to produce a derived distro
</I>><i> > with a face and personality which matches your objectives.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> This is one of the interesting elements of FOSS marketing that I've talked
</I>><i> about in the past. That Marketing department, which in a corporate world
</I>><i> always has the ear of management more so than the Development people simply
</I>><i> because of human interaction capabilities, has to turn it's focus inward. The
</I>><i> problem is, an one I've been trying to avoid here, is that it becomes insular
</I>><i> to the exclusion of all else and then the community stagnates and spirals into
</I>><i> irrelevancy. For the community to grow there has to be a dynamism, (and I'm
</I>><i> talking grow in terms of the community of contributors) Userland is the big
</I>><i> billboard of that dynamism. Ubuntu for all it's faults and annoyances has
</I>><i> taught us one thing, high visibility in Userland attracts contributors.
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Then what Fedora and Debian has taught us ?
Because AFAIK there is also lots of contributors in Fedora, as there is
in Debian, and I think they didn't really choose the high visibility
path to get them. So I do not think we can really find a direct
correlation between "ubuntu has lots of users" and "there is lots of
contribution".
My own opinion is that Canonical pay 5 people full time to take care of
the community growth
( <A HREF="http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/26/the-five-horsemen/">http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/26/the-five-horsemen/</A> ), and that's
the main reason for contribution from outsiders. The same goes for
Fedora and Redhat
( <A HREF="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CommunityArchitecture</A> )
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Michael Scherer
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