Re: On breaking the woohoo barrier...thoughts on how GNOME can get great

[Gergely Nagy <greg gnome hu>]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:44 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Santiago Roza wrote:
> > On 7/14/06, Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster sun com> wrote:
> >
> > > I even started on some profiles, with a more 'human' aspect [1] -
> > > http://live.gnome.org/JoshWilliams
> > > http://live.gnome.org/HarrisonJacobs
> >
> >
> > and what's the difference between these two and the ones we had
> > before, other than having a random "human" name and a face (both
> > american btw), a similar job, a similar age, and very similar needs?
> > :)
>
> I think having a name and a face is amazingly useful - helps people to
> visualize the types of people they are and what their lives might
> involve. I didn't know about the other Personas wiki page [if it even
> existed then], otherwise I would have taken those profiles, added some
> pictures and names.

Yet, if you said "I think it applies more to Josh than Harrison", I
would have to go and look up who they really are. But if you said "I
think it applies more to the admin guy than the programmer", I could
easily say yes, you are right :)

Greg