#6312: Make Multidesktop ISO for Fedora Ambassadors North America
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Reporter: nb | Owner: rel-eng@…
Type: task | Status: new
Milestone: Fedora 23 Final | Component: other
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Comment (by mattdm):
Like I said, I'm not automatically opposed. I just have concerns,
enumerated above.
Parasense, I do agree that offering multiple desktop environments is a
good sell to certain audiences. But, I think that the pool of people
"shopping" for an operating system in that way is very small, and that if
we focus on that, we end up really limited, even if it feels like success
when talking to those people.
Additionally, if the sell is that we provide desktop environments, well,
so does every other distro. It's good that we do that, but it doesn't seem
to draw people in to Fedora specifically, just as a commodity vendor. Part
of the Fedora.next strategy is to do Fedora-first innovative things with
Workstation, Server, and Cloud. This is why I'm emphasizing that Fedora
Workstation *isn't* the Fedora GNOME spin. It's more than just terminology
slip, that's why I think putting it on a DVD where it's naturally promoted
that way is detrimental to the messaging.
If our event strategy is going to include significant investment in going
to events where we're talking to people where desktop choice is a big
factor, then making some multi-offering DVDs makes sense. But I'm not at
all sold on that being a good event strategy.
Anyway — this is a better thread for Ambassadors list (see the
conversation I started there).
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