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The different categories had only been +</I>><i> suggested and were still up to debate. I personally would not recommend +</I>><i> "Young Family" as, again, it is very subjective. I happen to think that I +</I>><i> have a very young family at heart but have been married for over 25 years. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The other categories that are not subjective: "Business"; "Web Development"; +</I>><i> "Academia"; "Education (Primary/Secondary"; "Music"; ... and more. These +</I>><i> categories would be discussed at length on this mailist before submitting the +</I>><i> proposal. And again, different software packages could possibly apply to more +</I>><i> than one category, but would still be only installed once. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> These choices would then reflect that particular person or person(s) expected +</I>><i> usage of the distro. +</I>Marc, + +While we agree that "Young Family" doesn't work, it seems to me some of the +other categories are similarly broad. A useful rule of thumb would be to +focus not on types of persons or groups but on activities. Since "young +family" is not an activity, whereas "web development" is, that gives us an +objective reason for preferring the latter over the former as a useful +category. Likewise for "academia". Not all academics have the same needs, +for instance adminstrators versus research professors versus adjuncts who +teach and don't do research, yet all would fall under the term "academic". +In addition, a given college professor is not going to use his or her +computer only AS a professor, and his or her other activities, playing +poker online, playing games offline, buying and selling stocks and bonds, +etc. would vary widely from person to person. + +That's why I would focus more narrowly on what a person wants to DO with +his computer, in terms of *specific* tasks or activities. Early in the +process I would ask him what sorts of things he wants to use his computer +for and then list all the things he CAN do with it, each of which can be +selected or ignored. It MIGHT be useful to note, without it necessarily +being a selectable category, some of the things (and the apps that would +go with them) a typical high school teacher or rabid sports fan or +writer or stock market player might want to do or, alternatively, we +could indicate, along with the description of the uses of a particular +app or closely linked set of apps, what kinds of people might find +such app(s) useful, and why. All of this is a way of saying, which I +think we're in general agreement on, that we should be careful not +to cast too broad a net with our categories, that each should embody +a *particular* activity or *closely* linked set of activities. + +Dale Huckeby +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002762.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 137 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002773.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 137 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2771">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2771">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2771">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2771">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |