Recapitulate the current state of Fedora Extras and some ideas to make it better

[Rahul]

Hans de Goede wrote:

> 
> <sigh>
> 
> Today I had a refrehsing drink in the sun with a friend of mine and we
> had a discussion about Fedora and about how despite Fedora being GREAT
> Ubuntu seems to be way more popular.
> 
> One of the things he mentioned was the negative tone on the Fedora
> mailinglist, I disagreed. But reading this: he is right. We should drop
> the negative tone.
> 
> Neither Core nor Extras do _NOT_ sucks at all. Yes certain things are
> better in Extras then Core, but we have it easier, they have all the
> _really_ _hard_ packages. And yes even we are not perfect, but both core
> and extras are pretty good if not excellent in the case of Extras.
> 
> So not perfect, but most certainly not sucking at all!
> 
> Talking about this negative attitude, we need to improve our self image
> as a community and we need to work on our image to the rest of the worl
> too, time for a Fedora Marketing team?
> 

Awareness also helps. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing. All help 
is most welcome.

Rahul