SWOT strengths



This document is to be complemented by the Fedora Community accordingly to the operational parameters described bellow.The main goal is to collect information in order to perform our SWOT Analysis of Fedora.

SWOT

For further reference check the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis

Community Parameters

This document should be faced as an "internal audit" to Fedora Project. Here we are going to perform a self assessment of Fedora Project Strength's. All the elements present should comply with the following:

• The elements presented have to be controlled by Fedora Project;
• The elements have to qualify in one of this categories:
  • Men (manpower);
  • Means;
  • Methods;
  • Measurables;
  • Machines (from the scope of manufacture, developing, not the hardware requirements etc).
• The elements presented should focus on the following:
  • Quality and Management
  • Performance / Performance Improvements
  • Technology

This guidelines are important because the information present will be processed accordingly following a model to perform our SWOT Analysis. This might become a very important management tool that Marketing has to offer and the benefits for Fedora Project are obvious as such analysis will allow us to have a very important insight about Fedora.

The "Strength's" that we are pointing are key points of Fedora Project that highlight us as a community and our product, the Fedora Linux distribution. This factors might be part of Fedora's positioning or just plain technology that we offer. Everything that is recognized as a Strength for Fedora should be posted here bellow by community members.

Strength's

Strength	Submitter	Role	Notes
Documentation	Nelson Marques	Marketing Team	Fedora provides a wide set of Documentation in several formats and languages.
Channels of Distribution	Nelson Marques	Marketing Team	Our product is freely distributable through several channels, physical media, direct downloads, P2P networks. Everyone can virtually get easily our product.
Spins	Nelson Marques	Marketing Team	Availability of several SPINS oriented to segmented audiences.
SELinux	Nelson Marques	Marketing Team	SELinux technology (edit highlight it's relevance, strategical competitive advantage).