Question for the WG (and SIG) -- do you want to keep "Workstation"?

[Emily Dirsh]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Lynn Dixon <boodaddy at gmail.com> wrote:

> to me Workstation conveys a machine that is destined to do some sort of
> work, or be used in the production of something.  My company laptop is my
> "Workstation" as I use it mainly for getting work done.  I don't use it for
> personal use (OK, --rarely-- use it for personal stuff), and I have a
> different work flow when using it.  However, on my personal machines, I
> refer to them as my "desktop" for my big box computer, and my "laptop" for
> my laptop.  Hardly any work gets done on these, save for personal "fun"
> stuff.
>
> In the essence of what Fedora Workstation is targeting, I would think that
> the name Workstation is best suited.  We are targeting Developers and
> Sysadmins who get work done, much like the work I do on my company laptop
> "workstation".
>

+1 to keeping workstation. I was a part of some of the relevant
conversations at Flock, and IIRC the intention at the time was that
workstation would be for users with workstation use cases: developers,
sysadmins, content creators, etc.

IMO the workstation PRD doesn't deviate from that significantly.


> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>wrote:
>
>> I'm intentionally breaking the threading here since I think it's a
>> top-level
>> topic. The following is from Christian:
>>
>> > 1. The name is not important here, we might as well have called the
>> > product working group the Desktop Working Group or the Client Working
>> > Group. The name workstation was chosen mostly to emphasize that
>> technical
>> > users are of importance to us. So please do not get hung up on the name.
>>
>> I agree, and also, I think the direction has gone a little differently
>> from
>> what we were originally thinking about with the "Workstation" name. As I
>> noted elsewhere, things going differently from my first thoughts is the
>> process working. :)
>>
>> If there's going to be a name change, I think it's probably better
>> somewhat
>> sooner rather than later. It might be a good idea to talk with Fedora
>> Marketing too. So... yeah. Open floor on this idea. Does "workstation"
>> really convey what this product will be all about? What would be better?
>> Plain old "Fedora Desktop" is still on the table, for sure. "Fedora Bob"
>> is
>> probably a bad idea....
>>
>>
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