[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

[Marcello Anni]

> On 15 October 2010 17:00, Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it> wrote:
> >> On 15 October 2010 16:22, Marcello Anni <marcello.anni at alice.it> wrote:
> >> >> I don't think any respectable Linux distro should go the Ubuntu way
> >> >> in the branding part. Promoting ourselves as just "Mageia" not as
> >> >> "Mageia, a Linux distro", even implicitly, is just wrong. People who
> >> >> contribute to the FOSS world still have ethics and "values" to
> >> >> uphold. I don't care if it's commercially successful or not, and we
> >> >> _can be a successful Linux distro_.
> >> > 
> >> > i'd prefer a user that chooses mageia as it is and then he becomes
> >> > interested in linux and in its community (and values) than considering
> >> > mageia as a linux distro and not to trying it as he thinks it is too
> >> > diffult...  do you agree?
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Marcello
> >> 
> >> It's the other way around, the user is interested in Linux, for whatever
> >> reason: - economical, he can't afford windows
> >> - usability, he's tired of fixing his windows boxes... etc
> >> - ideological, he wants to use free open source software
> > 
> > no, we don't want to search those people. the people that choose linux
> > for these reasons have already installed linux in their machines, we
> > must comunicate to the people that think "linux is ugly and  difficult
> > to use" that there is the best system around the world and that they
> > didn't try it yet.
> 
> Bear in mind that those who searched will put more time/effort into
> getting it to work, i.e. they're not doing it as a sort of stunt :)

in fact (in compatibility with manpower and marketing decisions) we must offer  
an increasingly ease of use also for those people (without forgetting mentors 
help)
 
> >> then he looks for a distro and start using it.
> >> 
> >> Of course seeing an OS on a friend's machine may be an incentive to
> >> give that "thing" a shot, but he should know what he's about to use.
> > 
> > more than seeing an OS from their friends (that is really useful anyway,
> > overall in the first steps), i would like to change the synonim
> > linux=difficult. if you change it (as it happened often to me), they say
> > to you "ah, cool", but they won't ever install it .
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Marcello
> 
> I don't see how that contradicts my point of _not_ promoting "Mageia"
> but ""Mageia" the Linux distro"....

it is only a different POV. (but interesting in my opinion).. you say linux-
>mageia, i say mageia->linux : )


cheers,
Marcello