Attention / Interest / Desire / Action, getfedora.org, or why marketing 'the Fedora project' is a bad idea.

Hrishikesh Ballal wrote: My first post to the list. Basically, marketing the Fedora project is a bad idea. Or at least, not an immediate concern. Very few people care about the project. Those that wish to contribute are either part of the project already, or existing Fedora users that have decided to contribute and know where to go. Fedora - *the distro, not the project* - needs a website. Fedoraproject.org isn't it, cause of the name. fedora.redhat.com could be it, but with completely different content. A good example of sucessful OSS marketing is Firefox. When you visit mozilla.org or getfirefox.com, what dop you see? Is the front page taken up by stuff about the mozilla project, and how to contribute to it? Maybe even making no mention that it's a web browser, like fedora.redhat.com talks primarily describes fedora as an 'OSS project' rather than an actual linux distro? IMHO, the primarily focus of Fedora marketing should be a website that - aimed at users primarily, and developers secondarily and creates - Attention - Interest - Desire - Action Think getfedora.org. Joe user doesn't give a damn that 'The Fedora Project is an open source project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.' What they do care about is this: - What is Fedora? - Why do they want it? - Where can they get it? Mike