Re: [Gimp-developer] Targeted audience of GIMP?

[gfxuser <gfx user online de>]

peter sikking wrote:
> gfxuser wrote:
>
> > the last thread reminded me of a question, which I had for some longer and I couldn't find the right answer yet:
> > Who is the targeted audience of GIMP?
>
> since I am used to doing a briefing on this, for GIMP design
> projects and also recently the start of a university usability
> surveying project, I thought I could write some of that down:
>
> <http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Vision_briefing>
Very interesting and thanks for your work.
What is 'hyper commercial'? Googling for it led me to a truck rental in 
South Africa ...*hmm*
To me it seems the beginners or 'average users' are not targeted by this 
vision, are they? Or haven't they just been considered _yet_?
To speak for myself, I'm doing graphical art and photo editing, but just 
for fun and in my sparetime. I wouldn't claim to be a professional. And 
I think there are a lot more people in just this situation. What would 
be the benefit for one 'like us' to contribute to GIMP? Will we/they 
benefit automatically from a redesigned UI?

Best regards,

grafxuser