Re: [Opencd-devel] What about flavors?

[Bill R. <bil...@dn...>]

> On Saturday 04 May 2002 09:20 pm, Bill Rees wrote:
> > This flavor business is veering wildly off the original mark:  to
provide
> > open source programs for the typical windows user.  This means one
flavor
> > not several.  Once the one flavor is out and in distribution, then
focusing
> > other flavors on smaller audiences makes sense but until the original
> > purpose for this whole project is served, multiple flavors just
detracts.
>
> I find large IT depts are actually 'average' users with a certificate of
some
> kind.  They are all over the spectrum, unfortunately.
>
> However, that being said, would a "desktop user" use 750M of a CD on
desktop
> apps?  Really..?  Legit Question.

Actually I think this is a bad question.  First of all, what difference does
the excess space make when you're focusing on delivering a CD of open source
apps to the desktop user?  The sole issue is delivering to that user the
apps that they may not know anything about in a package that makes the
experience easy, enjoyable, encouraging and educational (at least to the
scope of OS Apps).

The real question you've asked here is who the CD is targeted to:  large IT
departments or desktop users?


>
> Perhaps the underlying idea here is that we have a limited resource... a
CD.
> If a desktop users isn't going to take up an entire CD.  And I have doubts
> that it would (but am willing to admit being wrong if you'd like to do the
> math), then _why not_ cram "other" flavors in there until we are forced to
> re-evalute the scope of what we have to work with.
>
> Perhaps at that time we will have more to work with too. No?

Yes the resource is limited but the resource, in my opinion, is our time and
focus not the size of the apps or the space leftover.  The more time we
spend spreading our time among disparate populations, the more likely we
will end up with a product that lacks the focus and desired affect that
started this whole discussion.  So let's not even think seriously (as
opposed to noting ideas for later examination) about trying to cram as much
as possible onto this CD and instead focus on what's the minimum we want to
put onto the cd?  What're the most important goals?