Hello, The Debian Project, as a whole and generally speaking, is still having difficulties to spread the word about the good work done here.
The Publicity Team should be informed by the other Teams, for example. The Project is too big to the small team know all things happening. The publicity team welcomes more skilled man power. Sometime ago, new skilled non-techies became interested in it and started collaborating and improved the efforts. The debian-publicity list is the focal point of contact to the publicity, marketing and partner efforts. DPN is a first rate one for us, imho. We should have more press contacts to bring DPN to press attention around the world. And use the other channels, like social media, events and web casts too. You could remember that "advertising" things evolved for Debian last 2 years (hey, we have a new site layout! and a coordinated desktop theme!), but we are still too shy to tell about the good work done. While other distros excell at that... Debian Project is more than a tech super-market buried at the 10th level basement for others "polish and sell" at the mall. Debian Project is like a "multi-front" tech effort, stretching limits of collective useful work and something a "working umbrella" for more sub projects, while delivering a "flagship product". Should we identify ourselves as "foundation like" as Apache (for example)? Should we enhance visibility of the sub-projects (debian-desktop needs you) and Pure Blends? Should we tell more about CUT and the Security Team and Release Team process improvements that could allow 5 year stable support? Should not we be proud of doing the things "right way" instead of "share-holders-first way"? Regards. Andre Felipe
