PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:51:06AM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 1. One group wants us to aim for mom/pop/grandma/desktop users - the 
> apple market or what ubuntu aims for.
>
> 2. one group wants us to aim exclusively for the bleeding edge open 
> source developer market.
> 
> 3. one group wants us to aim for the admin/experienced user who wants
> newer things but doesn't have time nor interest to fight with lots of
> broken things.

Aiming at #1 means that every single new student and researcher at the
school where I work comes in asking for Ubuntu -- even if one could make a
very persuasive case that these users probably fit better into #2 and #3.


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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences