Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

[Claus Schwarm <c schwarm gmx net>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:18:06 +1300
John Williams <john williams lists gmail com> wrote:

> Sorry to butt in here, but I am not sure of the value of this exercise.
> Everyone and his dog seem to have a quite clear idea of the "segments"
> in GNOME's "market".  But how do we know they are real in any sense?
> You could point to your own personal experience, but I could tell you
> that my personal experience is different.
> 

I'm not sure about these personas, too, but I'm quite sure that we have
a communication problem on the ml: Our current status is 'Go out and
pray'. This is nice, of course, but makes everybody run in different
directions.

These personas will hopefully help us to focus.


Cheers,
Claus


P.S.: Example: Instead of running in different directions called
'users', 'developers', and 'distributions', we should concentrate
on users _and_ developers _and_ distributions of scintific applications
in 2006; with something else following in 2007 and 2008. 

 Msg:   A bit of GNOME'iness won't hurt! 
 Idea:  To convince people that the ideas driving GNOME
        (ie. HIG and Gobject stuff) are good for them. 
 Tasks: Establish marketing workflow for GNOME, ie. means to
        extend the number of developers, an advocate army, and
        internal capacities (ie. a proper PHP website).