User talk:Peterschneider

Considerations on wording

I did some changes on wording but I left these for discussion, just in case.

There are a couple of terms in these pages that look a bit unusual in open source projects:

  • Consumers --> Users
  • Innovate, Innovation --> Develop, Development.

Also, this sounds a bit too overoptimistic:

  • "over 12.000 registered members that contribute to more than 600 development projects" --> "over 12.000 contributors and more than 600 development projects".

--qgil 21:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I changed "consumers" to "users/people/persons" in many places. I left consumers in some places where the sentence would turn into "...users use...".
I changed to "innovation" in some places to "development work".
Quim, I'm not sure what you mean by rephrasing "12.000 registered members" to "12.000 contributors". Is it safer to claim that we have members versus contributors? I'm sure not every member is a contributor, or? --peterschneider 05:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure myself and probably is not that important.  :) "Member" sounds stronger to me since it calls to rights, duties and a sense of belonging to an organization. "Contributor" means that contributes something, which is a more flexible definition. People would register to maemo.org to file or comment on a bug, rate a news or an app, be part of a garage project, edit a wiki page... --qgil 06:38, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Variables for the numbers

I think we can get variables in the text so we can talk about real numbers in real time i.e. registered users, projects hosted in Garage, applications in Downloads...--qgil 21:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)