Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 16.24:25 MJ Ray wrote: > > [...] too much news-style ick in the user > > list. That would make it have less impact, as readers will notice and > > may discount it as marketing more than reports. > > Hmm. This begs the question of the purpose of this users list. > * we want to show that many people do indeed use Debian, and use it for > some stated reason. --> mostly marketing. > * we want to know who uses Debian so that we can improve Debian to better > serve our users. --> more market research than marketing. [...]
I thought it was: * we want to give potential or current users a way to find other similar users in case they have questions that the other support channels don't answer. => mainly user support. I may have that impression from finding the use reports through the route www.debian.org -> Support -> Other support resources -> related links -> Organisations using debian. Some other projects I work on use user lists more as a support/ user-networking tool than marketing. Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
