Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years.
The Debian team should not focus only on the development and maintenance of a good and stable operating system, but also on the promotion of its products. Being free of charge is not an excuse of not actively participating in promotional activities. Higher visibility can be beneficial for a community, since it can bring more new developers. It can be a vicious circle: if the current situation and trends do not change, the whole project will eventually not be able to continue because of the lack of developers and users. There should not only be developers in the team. Professionals are needed for the handling of public relations, and the leader should be responsible for that. Desktop applications should be paid more attention to, since an active desktop user is more likely to become a developer than those who use other operating systems as their desktops. You may also think of ways for the promotion of the project. HTH -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]