Re: Linden Lab (Second Life) using Debian
Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> 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,
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