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A useful rule of thumb would be to +</I>><i> focus not on types of persons or groups but on activities. Since "young +</I>><i> family" is not an activity, whereas "web development" is, that gives us an +</I>><i> objective reason for preferring the latter over the former as a useful +</I>><i> category. Likewise for "academia". Not all academics have the same needs, +</I>><i> for instance adminstrators versus research professors versus adjuncts who +</I>><i> teach and don't do research, yet all would fall under the term "academic". +</I>><i> In addition, a given college professor is not going to use his or her +</I>><i> computer only AS a professor, and his or her other activities, playing +</I>><i> poker online, playing games offline, buying and selling stocks and bonds, +</I>><i> etc. would vary widely from person to person. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That's why I would focus more narrowly on what a person wants to DO with +</I>><i> his computer, in terms of *specific* tasks or activities. Early in the +</I>><i> process I would ask him what sorts of things he wants to use his computer +</I>><i> for and then list all the things he CAN do with it, each of which can be +</I>><i> selected or ignored. It MIGHT be useful to note, without it necessarily +</I>><i> being a selectable category, some of the things (and the apps that would +</I>><i> go with them) a typical high school teacher or rabid sports fan or +</I>><i> writer or stock market player might want to do or, alternatively, we +</I>><i> could indicate, along with the description of the uses of a particular +</I>><i> app or closely linked set of apps, what kinds of people might find +</I>><i> such app(s) useful, and why. All of this is a way of saying, which I +</I>><i> think we're in general agreement on, that we should be careful not +</I>><i> to cast too broad a net with our categories, that each should embody +</I>><i> a *particular* activity or *closely* linked set of activities. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Dale Huckeby +</I> +Here we agree again. There would be nothing to stop that section, for +example, "Academia" to open up to subsets of "Academia-Reasearch"; +"Academia-Administrator (office)"; "Academia-Teaching" etc. + +And yes, if they play poker online, they would then have checked the +"Gaming" category. + +The choosing of these categories are what the person wants to DO with +her/his computer. What you are suggesting is to ask her/him what they +would want to do and they would answer by categories. So why add such a +layer when we could already dispense with this layer and go straight to +the categories? + +There are only a certain amount of programmes available and therefore +the same for categories. We can offer the categories. If some of the +categories are broad, then, when picked, we could have for example, a +drop down extended menu from that categories with a sub-set of more +descriptive categories. And, remember, that software packages will +bridge the categories where they fit in more than one. + +We are saying the same thing but with different approaches. + +Marc + +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002771.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 137 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="002765.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 2, Issue 137 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#2773">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#2773">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#2773">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#2773">[ 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> |