[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Thu Sep 30 21:38:15 CEST 2010

Le 30/09/2010 20:41, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0800, Kira a écrit :
+> 
+>> "A distribution for Newbie" is good, but I think what Graham said is  
+>> better.
+> 
+> Well, 
+> saying "a distribution for newbies" is not as good as it sound.
+> 
+> If you market the distribution so people think "if you are a newbie, use
+> this distro", people will think "he use this distribution so he is a
+> newbie". This will drive knowledgeable peoples away to others
+> distribution, because they will feel they will learn more by using
+> another distro ( which is wrong ) and because others peoples will appear
+> as more knowledgeable when they use a distro that is not aimed at
+> newbies.
+> 
+> In turn, this mean a diminution of the global expertise in the
+> community. Less expert users to answer to support, less experts users to
+> report bug, fix packages, create softwares or contribute, and to
+> basically teach to new users how to be good community member resulting
+> in less quality, and a less sustainable community.
+> 
+> Apple does it correctly. They never say "we target newbie users".
+> See http://www.apple.com//why-mac/ 
+> "better computer" "most advanced os" "award winning support" "latest
+> technology" "software you love".
+> 
+> Everything resolve around how they are good, not how beginner you can
+> be. 
+> 
+> Or see http://www.apple.com/why-mac/better-os/
+> they say "it is easy", but they never say "it is easy and can be used by
+> a newbie". They say "it is easy and you will learn how to use it fast",
+> which is more positive. 
+> 
+> And so I think we should also try to avoid this pitfall, right from the
+> start, if we want to have a thriving sustainable community.
+>  
+
++1
+
+Ease of use should not be restricted to newbies.
+
+Sometimes, you just want a standard system that work, can connect to the
+internet in many different situations, etc. (because you use it every
+day for your business, and all your colleagues too).
+
+In other times, you require a system much more tailored (e.g. server or
+developer computer), on which you can afford to spend some time to
+configure/maintain it.
+
+Mageia should accomodate both.
+
+	Daniel
+