PROPOSAL: Fedora user survey

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Matthew Miller wrote:

> 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.

I think the problem is how far we can go. If we slice up the things that 
matter to group 3 trying to hit group 1 we alienate a number of the folks 
who are most able to make things in fedora work.

-sv