User Profiles

[Máirín Duffy]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 15:40 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> From last week's board meeting (2009-11-05)...
> 
>    * ACTION: poelcat and stickster to gear up FAB thread, getting
>      experienced UI/design people to help with user profiling
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I'm starting this thread (with Paul's help) and looking for help and a 
> more concrete methodology for building user profiles.  Creating user 
> profiles is part of the project the board is helping to lead around who 
> Fedora's target audience is.  Normally an organization would commission 
> a market study to help identify it's target audience.  These studies 
> require expertise, time, and money... all of which are in short supply 
> to us now.  With that in mind we are attempting to reach the same place, 
> but with a less scientific approach.
> 
> I took information from the the 2009-10-29 board meeting to start a wiki 
> page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Profiles
> 
> This page obviously needs a lot more work and I'm wondering if we could 
> get some help from the desktop and design team to know how to be best 
> represent these profiles and build them out.

I have a lot to say about this but haven't had the time yet. Now that
the stork's got F12 in his little swaddling cloth, I will have more time
to write down my thoughts on this. So, just a lame little note here to
let you know I'm gonna be chiming in :)

~m