Re: Review request: publicity microflyer

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 04:12, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 15:59 +0100, James Addison wrote:
>
> > I'd like to gather feedback on the wording and content of the flyer;
>
> I would recommend replacing the specific number of packages in the
> flyer with a more generic term like "many" or "thousands of" since this
> represents a maintenance burden as the real number changes. Also, even
> if you were to automate updating the number, the physical flyers will
> get out of date with the number.
>
> Similarly, the number of people contributing to Debian in 2023 is
> currently estimated at less than 1000 and it was estimated as much less
> than that in previous years. Probably the data isn't very accurate,
> but I do think it is a good idea to avoid specific numbers as our
> contribution levels fluctuate a fair bit. So I would drop "more than a
> thousand" from it.
>
> https://contributors.debian.org/

Thanks, Paul - I wasn't aware of that, and agree with updating the
wording for the contributor count.

Relating to the package count: I'm still processing some feedback and
ideas related to that, so: no confirmation either way yet, but some
edits will likely occur there.

> I suggest that the list of audiences we have software for be expanded
> based on the list of Debian blends and include "other" as well. Perhaps
> something like "software for businesses, programmers, scientists,
> educators, artists, multimedia, gamers, children, medicine, ham radio,
> politicians, home servers, accessibility and other uses".

This is a tricky one.  I did consider using mailing lists / blends as
sources of the audience list.  What I ended up deciding instead was on
some fairly arbitrary list that I think would represent some of the
areas of expertise that most people around the world would understand.
I also prefer that to using a generic term like 'everyone' or 'anyone'
-- I think that inspiring a few general use cases in people's minds,
and helping them to think of their friends and colleagues, is
valuable.

Thanks again,
James