Re: Q to all candidates: SWOT analysis
On 15347 March 1977, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
You are probably familiar with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
Nope.
Note that if you prefer not to frame this in the context of SWOT
analysis, you can also answer the following four questions, which should
result in basically the same information:
Lets go this way instead.
* What are the main 2-4 strengths of Debian today?
Known to be rock solid stable.
Known to just work on nearly everything you throw it at.
Great resource of highly skilled people.
Very independent from any one company, can't just be bought off.
Release today? Tomorrow? When a marketing droid says? When its ready!
Huge and diverse community.
Very good defined processes for a lot of things. Especially good in the
technical area.
* What are the main 2-4 weaknesses of Debian today?
Great pool of people with a highly developed and defended set of
opinion, leading to huge discussions on central topics.
Reputation for flamewars.
We aren't good at marketing us.
Not having a company behind us, some doors/avenues are closed.
While our community is more diverse than many others, in reality we can
do way better. We need more non-cis-white-male members everywhere.
* What are the main 2-4 external things happening in the world outside
Debian, and that are "opportunities" for Debian?
That new "serverless" computing trend. Or in general, containerization,
virtualization. Debian is a nice ground for it, but sure not perfect.
Privacy and security are in everyones mouth, and there are derivates of
us focusing on that. We are already pretty conscious of those issues,
but can sure do more to fulfill what more and more people and companies
nowadays want: A system that is not focused on spying on its users. But
enabling them to overcome such bad behaviour.
* What are the main 2-4 external things happening in the world outside
Debian, and that are "threats" for Debian?
Trolling. We are big enough that a certain set of people with a bad
mindset take notice of us.
Users chosing another distribution over us. For whatever reason. Less
users means less contributors means less work means less Debian.
One of the questions in my platform hinted at one point: The "package"
managers various new languages came up with.
--
bye, Joerg
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