<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I agree completely with your ideas, those ones will give more value to open source. I think, moreover, we have to improve our knowledge base, people don't need to know how much free is fedora (they know it) but what fedora can offer, the pros of this one and, generally, of open source applications.<br><br>Personally i think that what are you doing is what open source has to do. Each open source project has its value: to show this we have to pay attention on the other projects, promoting those ones.<br><br>This will give us more value.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Francesco<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh@fedoraproject.org><br>To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base <fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com><br>Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:09:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: Minority: helping upstream to market their product<br><br><div>On 9/6/07, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:<br>> As for the open source projects for electronic simulations, their<br>> developers are neither geeks nor full time software developers but<br>> electronic engineers and university lecturers. There are very few<br>> developers. These days, projects such as gEDA and gnucap are active<br>> and paving their way to attract professional designers/engineers.<br>><br>> If one will follow gEDA user mailing list, he/she will notice most of<br>> them are fedora users. As for their developers are some individuals<br>> scattered around the world. They can't not afford to prepare a booth<br>> for an event and talk about their product.<br><br>There is an ongoing discussion on the geda-mailing list:<br>"Marketing gEDA - was - Re: Professional PCB help using geda?"<br><a target="_blank" href="http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2007/msg00103.html">http://archives.seul.org/geda/user/Sep-2007/msg00103.html</a><br><br>Chitlesh<br>-- <br><a target="_blank" href="http://clunixchit.blogspot.com">http://clunixchit.blogspot.com</a><br><br>-- <br>Fedora-marketing-list mailing list<br>Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com<br><a target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a><br></div></div><br></div></div><br> <hr size=1>Luggage? GPS? Comic books? <br> Check out fitting <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48249/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz"> gifts for grads</a> at Yahoo! Search.</body></html>