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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 7123">I agree completely.&nbsp; But what comes first, the chicken or the egg?&nbsp; My point in asking such a stupid question is that in order to evangelise a robust, mature product a strategy needs to be created.&nbsp; That stratgey and resulting roadmap will ensure that when we do have a robust, mature product that we can adequately evangelise it.The ideas I threw out were ways we could execute parts of a strategy.&nbsp; If we want to do this right, we need to build a roadmap that the stakeholders (to be defined) can agree on.&nbsp; My ideas as a marketer and the ideas of a developer may be close but probably aren't the same.&nbsp; This is a developer lead project (as are most open source projects.)&nbsp; If I were one of those developers, I'd be very sensitive to someone coming in and trying to create a roadmap.&nbsp; I think portions of a roadmap exist (the infamous todo list) and I think a good place to start might be to tackle that list and try to make it a little more coherent.&nbsp; If the developers approve, of course.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm sure if you ask frodo, he has a pretty clear roadmap in his head.&nbsp; So I guess I am saying this is an area/project that we would need to tred lightly in and proceed slowly...Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 7123"] I agree completely. But what comes first, the chicken or the egg? My point in asking such a stupid question is that in order to evangelise a robust, mature product a strategy needs to be created. That stratgey and resulting roadmap will ensure that when we do have a robust, mature product that we can adequately evangelise it. The ideas I threw out were ways we could execute parts of a strategy. If we want to do this right, we need to build a roadmap that the stakeholders (to be defined) can agree on. My ideas as a marketer and the ideas of a developer may be close but probably aren't the same. This is a developer lead project (as are most open source projects.) If I were one of those developers, I'd be very sensitive to someone coming in and trying to create a roadmap. I think portions of a roadmap exist (the infamous todo list) and I think a good place to start might be to tackle that list and try to make it a little more coherent. If the developers approve, of course. I'm sure if you ask frodo, he has a pretty clear roadmap in his head. So I guess I am saying this is an area/project that we would need to tred lightly in and proceed slowly... Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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