On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 04:12, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 15:59 +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > I'd like to gather feedback on the wording and content of the flyer; > > I would recommend replacing the specific number of packages in the > flyer with a more generic term like "many" or "thousands of" since this > represents a maintenance burden as the real number changes. Also, even > if you were to automate updating the number, the physical flyers will > get out of date with the number. > > Similarly, the number of people contributing to Debian in 2023 is > currently estimated at less than 1000 and it was estimated as much less > than that in previous years. Probably the data isn't very accurate, > but I do think it is a good idea to avoid specific numbers as our > contribution levels fluctuate a fair bit. So I would drop "more than a > thousand" from it. > > https://contributors.debian.org/
Thanks, Paul - I wasn't aware of that, and agree with updating the wording for the contributor count. Relating to the package count: I'm still processing some feedback and ideas related to that, so: no confirmation either way yet, but some edits will likely occur there. > I suggest that the list of audiences we have software for be expanded > based on the list of Debian blends and include "other" as well. Perhaps > something like "software for businesses, programmers, scientists, > educators, artists, multimedia, gamers, children, medicine, ham radio, > politicians, home servers, accessibility and other uses". This is a tricky one. I did consider using mailing lists / blends as sources of the audience list. What I ended up deciding instead was on some fairly arbitrary list that I think would represent some of the areas of expertise that most people around the world would understand. I also prefer that to using a generic term like 'everyone' or 'anyone' -- I think that inspiring a few general use cases in people's minds, and helping them to think of their friends and colleagues, is valuable. Thanks again, James