On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro wrote:
Robyn Bergeron wrote:
Is bucketizing a bunch of stuff into "User, Sysadmin, Developer" the best answer for marketing highlights of the release? It seems like... well, a listing of car parts, but not really telling a story about the car, for lack of a better metaphor. And it seems a lot like "we made a bunch of improvements here and there" isn't as compelling as "we have improved overall state of ($experience, $usecase, etc) and here's how."
We have the big problem of Fedora generally perceived as 'not intended for "normal" users', imagine this, a "normal" user parsing fast the announcement, his reaction "Develop and Distribute, Start and Recover, Monitor and Manage - which of those is for *me*?"
Take a look at the feature list. I think I can classify the following things as being for "normal" users:
* Improved mobile broadband support (incremental changes, but nice, I suppose)
Well, that's it. Anaconda improvements are incremental and not an overhaul, mostly focused on enabling advanced/more complex options. We have a handful of desktops with nothing earth-shaking enough in terms of changes to highlight individually, other than in a section dedicated to Spins/Desktops, where we've commonly detailed those items.
There's obviously options around *explaining* in the course of the announcement/talking points / etc that "fedora can be for everyone" - but I think it's fairly difficult to say, "Hey! look at all the new shiny things we have for $generaluser" when ... well, there aren't a lot of shiny new things.
My intent was really around use cases and not identities - perhaps those sections above could really be longer descriptions of a story/use case - "Improved management and monitoring capabilities," "Efficient tooling to enable rapid boot time and system recovery," etc?
-r
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