Let's concentrate on Grandma and Joe, potential GNOME users although not much into software or freedom. We need to decide what do we want to do with them since they appear recursively in our discussions. On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 05:47 +0200, karderio wrote:
I've been arguing for Joe on the basis that GNOME should be "easy for everyone to use".
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it should pose no problem for these people to click on a Planet GNOME link, while it could potentially confuse or put off Joe.
As I see it, GNOME in the computer universe is like Pirelli (tires) or Motul (oil) in the car industry. Every time Grandma or Joe picks the car they are using tires and oil. This doesn't imply though that they have a clue of the brand and importance of tires and oil while they are driving, nor we should deduce that frequent drivers are frequent users of pirelli.com or motul.com. Racing fans, mechanics and car manufacturers are more likely to be interested in the last Pirelli campaign or in the pilots Motul is sponsoring. No matter Grandma and Joe see the Pirelli and Motul logos everytime they watch a Grand Prix champion or a race on tv, they surely won't have any interest knowing more about those shiny logos. So... should we aim to end users? Definitely, and hobbyists that are software or freedom enthusiasts are already one of our primary targets. See the use cases planned for users at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/UseCases to see what situatiions we are aiming to satisfy. Should we target specifically Grandma and Joe? Well, I think we have other priorities. For instance to target the distros (systematically avoided in our discussions about audiences), many of them do target directly Grandma and Joe and they are our primary way to get to mainstream end users. Said that, even Grandma and Joe may find a corner in the wgo homepage that would be appealing to them: the top right column at http://www.leetambiah.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads/layoutPlanHome0.5.svg has a What Is GNOME component that could incorporate a tiny screenshot followed by a GNOME Product featured, that perhaps could be a program they can also download and try in MS Windows. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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