Hello I personally think that this is a concern that should be also shared with our marketing team looping them in.
We probably need to advertise server, edge stories bit more in our annoucements. There will be a bit more EDGE advertisment in Micro related articles. Thank you for raising the concern Sasi Olin píše v Po 14. 03. 2022 v 15:48 +0100: > On Mo, Mär 14 2022 at 15:30:52 +0100, Richard Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Maybe the laptop being the only computer you can see on > > www.opensuse.org? > > > > Maybe because the Tumbleweed description mentions desktops and > > office > > applications but no obvious server/cloud/edge/embedded use cases? > > (Samba and git straddle multiple realms). > > > > Maybe because the Leap description only mentions 'pick your > > desktop...' > > > > Maybe because news articles like > > https://news.opensuse.org/2022/03/02/leap-reaches-beta-build-phase/ > > emphasise Plasma, GNOME, Enlightenment, but don't mention a single > > use > > case besides desktop, and asks users to test it on " on multiple > > laptops, workstations and other hardware devices" > > > > Conciously or not, I'd say openSUSE has a desktop bias problem that > > it > > needs to address, especially when it comes to how we talk about > > ourselves. > > I hope you will be glad to learn I'm trying my best to make both > get-o-o and www-o-o (which has been in the works for 3 years and > isn't > really expected to be finished anytime soon) appeal to a wider set of > audiences than just desktop users (while also making it easier for > the > specific audiences to find their way around the project). > > The thing that stops me the most is that I'm not a copy writer and I > can't come up with good text to market everything about the projects > and its output well at all, I got plenty of help from others in this > area already, and so things are moving at a faster pace, but this > seems > to be a general issue with our websites, text is kind of a mess and > people don't understand things we try to communicate. > > Finding out anything about the project, the distros is a matter of > asking a lot of questions to the community on communication platforms > instead it seems, which we are frankly happy to answer, but not > everyone will ask before they just give up after trying to look it up > for themselves. > > Also Richard, I hope I don't have to state the obvious, but I did not > see any bug reports/issues on the subject of the websites targeting > desktop more. I really wish I could read y'alls' minds, so I knew how > to please you in what our messaging on the core websites is, but I > can't do it no matter how hard I try. > > LCP [Sasi] > https://lcp.world/ > -- Best regards Lubos Kocman openSUSE Leap Release Manager
