[CREATE] [LGF] Some goals, aims or objectives !

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 6/6/10, Gregory Pittman wrote:

> Something which I think is not so easy to describe is that, when we
> consider the advantages that proprietary software has over the FOSS
> projects, there is the important area of marketing and promotion.
> Marketing is not synonymous with advertising, but involves the
> accumulation of input from users and potential users about their needs,
> habits, workflows, then taking that information to pull together
> information to fill their knowledge void about what FOSS can do in
> aggregate, but also give feedback to the projects about important
> directions for projects to take, individually and
> collectively/collaboratively.

This is an interesting idea. However the problem is that one would
have to monitor lots of existing communication channels: IRCs, mailing
lists, bug trackers and so on. Not that it shouldn't be done, mind you
:)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org