Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On 7/14/06, *Jeff Waugh* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I have been banging on this drum in the Ubuntu community for a > while, but I > guess I haven't been banging it sufficiently loud in GNOME: Whenever > we talk > about GNOME, we *must* talk first and foremost about benefits, and > then back > it up with the features. > > > Amen. :) > > One of the things that seems to be drifting with GNOME both in its > current form and in the upcoming (and proposed Topaz) is that a whole > bunch of features are getting tossed at the end user without actively > bundling them together in a coherent whole of benefits accrued. > > Why would end users use GNOME and thus Linux unless they are sold on the > benefits of using them ? The bells and whistles would come later and > would come in a logical followup. >
wrt marketing, Seth Godin ("Purple Cow") does a good job arguing for making something that stands out, vs. figuring out how to get whatever you made to stand out (after you're done making it). thought about from a design rather than marketing angle; why would end users use GNOME and Linux if those things were not designed/invented to benefit them? The goal should not be "get people to use Linux" but to provide benefits to people. Linux or GNOME or Java or Mono or a web site or a hardware device or whatever it is should be implementation, not goal. Havoc -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list