[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Wed Oct 20 14:46:22 CEST 2010


Le mercredi 20 octobre 2010 14:24:51, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> 
> 2010/10/20 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> >
> > "Jeroen: One of the big, essential differences between Fedora and other
> > distributions is that we’d rather gain one contributor than a dozen
> > users. In fact, if I could lose 1000 users right now and gain a
> > contributor, I’d do it. It’s not up to me, but if it were, I’d do it."
> 
> This seems to me a very short-sighted point of view. It may be right
> if you start a project and you do not have enough contributors to get
> it going at all. But for something where the basic number of
> contributors is already available it's time to turn users into
> committed users. Besides, the PR footwork done by a large user base is
> cost-free and a powerful instrument. PR is as essential as
> development. You can have the best product in the world but no success
> if you have no PR (that was one of Mandriva's faults).
> 
> How are contributors become attracted to a new project? Besides other
> means (fellow contributors, friends, etc.) they become attracted as
> users. They look at the product from a user's point of view, they like
> it and decide that this is something they want to spend some time,
> sweat and tears on  (remembering the fact that contributors primarily
> work to scratch their own itches with the project they like (IIRC it
> was you who wrote that)). So, if you can find a contributor, fine. But
> finding 1000 users bears the chance that there may be more than one
> contributor or user-turns-contributor among them.
> 
> Yes, I agree, "the trick is balance".
> 
> 
+1 for wobo on this one :)

Samuel



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