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On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 22:24 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kevin Kofler a écrit :</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 1. Do we really want to highlight a "default" spin on the front page, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> effectively hiding the others ?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I think it is *very* important to emphasize a default spin, not </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">necessarily by hiding others, but to make sure casual Fedora users do </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not run away when confronted by a choice they're not ready to make.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">To quote a wikipedia article I skimmed today:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">|« The "Sculley Era" at Apple was characterized by market division and </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">further subdivision, with a large number of models [...] This strategy </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">backfired, as it resulted in high [...] marketing costs, as well as </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">market confusion. Buyers would look at similar machines in a store, each </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">conceived for a particular market but usable elsewhere, and with </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">comparable performance specifications, and become confused as to which </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">product to buy. »</FONT>
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Nicolas,<BR>
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This is a bit of a challenge, because it seems that the official line for the target audience for Fedora is the "FOSS enthusiast", which might limit how "casual" we would expect our users to actually be. Paul emphasized that this doesn't mean we expect someone to be a kernel hacker, but I think the other extreme might also be excluded.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/16918.html?thread=47894#t47894">http://mmcgrath.livejournal.com/16918.html?thread=47894#t47894</A><BR>
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I hope I am understanding this wrong, though, because I very much would like Fedora to be something that can <I>make</I> someone into a FOSS enthusiastic by making it easy for them to try it without having much prior experience.
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