Graphical Distribution Upgrades

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Apr 9 12:29:23 UTC 2015


On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 07:55:38AM +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> > > That's a big "if", isn't it?
> > It is the target audience for Fedora Workstation, which is a subset of
> > Fedora overall — but also one of our current big, main areas of focus.
> I merely meant that's an "if" because although developers are (since the
> inception of Workstation) our primarily targeted audience, that doesn't
> magically make all our users developers. Most users will be those that have
> used Fedora for years. Can we say with any confidence what their technical
> competencies are?

That's true, and while we absolutely don't want to abandon those users,
the Workstation plan is aimed at attracting _new_ users from a segment
in which we should be able to have a lot of growth.

> It's good there are plans afoot to survey our users, we may be surprised at
> how many aren't developers.

Oh, I won't be surprised. I'm certain it's a lot. :)


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Matthew Miller
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