Today i did a quick search on the WordPress.com blogs using it’s tag feature i’ve talked about some time ago.
Seems that, even with all the hype generated by XGL first and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 later, on the ” 306 thousand blogs on WordPress.com ” there are only two persons talking about it, Vichar and (the very active) Reverend Ted, with me and Liquidat and Kelly doing that occasionally.
This seems pretty sad to me, and maybe it’s an indicator for the openSUSE people that they are doing something “wrong” since the exitement using and developing their distro isn’t spreading all over as the fantastic product could do (to say in the SUSE’s italian mailing list i’ve opened with my colleagues we aren’t seeing any mail !!!).
Also I’ve noticed that the Communicate page on the official page has been remodeled, removing any external information and link to localized resources (I, for example, did put online the forum, IRC channel and mailing list fot the Italian community!).
Not good, IMHO.
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About the vanishing communication channels: maybe that is due to the multi-language rework done around the wiki?
They try to build up sub-wiki-pages for each language – this lists some italian pages, forums, and so on.
On the other hand I agree with you that, for example Reverend Ted, should do better. Although he is doing a nice job, the levelling staff is – sadly – Scobleizer (check the “Top WordPress.com blogs”).
And, of course, there could be more users and developers out there and promoting stuff!
So I agree, there is something missing, the community work they are doing is not really taking off – I hear much more about Ubuntu every day, although I am not subscribed to any specific Ubuntu chanells…
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I didn’t talk about Ubuntu by pourpouse, but http://wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/ gives much more results.
Also i didn’t check the italian translation of the wiki, having done so i saw that the localized resources are present, but then iw would have made sense (to me) to have a comprehensive, full list of them in each language.
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Hey, kOoLiNuS:
You and liquidat are both correct. Ubuntu is currently doing great work on community. With my friend Jono now guiding their program, I expect that to continue.
I’ll be posting some things in response to a recent comment by Liquidat. You’re correct that Novell could be doing much better on this.
–T
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