I still think that all we need is (not love) documentation, in local language, translated or created to local users.<br><br>For example, in Brazil, is hard to find someone who read English (speak is even harder). We need a local documentation, not too technical. Something to help new users, that only know the Power Button, the MSN program and Internet Explorer. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is our biggest target and biggest challenge.</span><br><br>Doesn't matter if all technician users start using Fedora, the biggest target still the normal user, that almost doesn't use a computer.<br><br>Rodrigo Menezes<br><br><br><br><b><i>David Barzilay &lt;barzilay@redhat.com&gt;</i></b> escreveu:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Em Ter, 2006-02-21 ąs 13:38 -0300, Pablo Barrera Franco escreveu:<br>&gt; All the FOSS community have a very BIG problem. We develope software <br>&gt; thinking about what W!
E WANT
 from an Operating System and not what<br>&gt; the People NEED to use. That“s why Linux doesnt grow on desktop <br>&gt; acceptance for example.<br><br>Hi Pablo and All,<br><br>I wanna take this topic discussion further.<br><br>Long ago I realised we got a confusing Marketing positioning (not even<br>talking about a plan yet).<br><br>It is time for us, as Ambassadors, to define our target. In other words,<br>to better understand who are the potential Fedora users.<br><br>No! I don't accept that answer that everyone is a potential Fedora user.<br>Sorry, but I think that getting grandmas to use open source shouldn't be<br>our focus...nothing against them, please (I was raised by my granny)<br><br>That said, I have an idea of who we should focus on from observing and<br>experiencing Fedora communities in the last 3 years.<br><br>The way I see it, if we want to hit the masses, highly technical people<br>shouldn't be part of our "focus groups". But IT students and teachers,<br>edu!
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 and government computer users, enthusiasts and newcomers from<br>different walks of life.<br><br>Personally, I believe we ought to target normal users, not developers,<br>sys admins, IT consultants, etc.<br><br>Hang on! I'm not going against all techies here (I wouldn't dare). But<br>techies know how and where to get info and help while normal users are<br>totally lost in the open source arena.<br><br>We need to define once and for all who should we approach (maybe<br>different targets in different situations), otherwise our actions will<br>get lost in space with our dispersed communications.<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Best,<br>--<br>db<br><br><br>--<br>Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list<br>Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list<br></blockquote><br><p>
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