[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Fri Oct 1 16:40:06 CEST 2010

Graham Lauder wrote:
+> On Saturday 02 Oct 2010 01:14:36 Frank Griffin wrote:
+>   
+>
+>>> And you miss my point entirely, there is NO trumpeting, that's
+>>> advertising, there is no exclusion, rather inclusion of a missed market
+>>>       
+>> Oh, come on.  Trumpeting and advertising are essentially the same thing,
+>> at last in the context of this discussion. 
+>>     
+> Um, that what I said:  That the trumpeting IS advertising... 
+
+Apologies for missing your meaning, but that phrase ("there is NO
+trumpeting, that's advertising") can be read two different ways
+depending upon what you take "that's" to be modifying, i.e. trumpeting
+or what you're advocating.
+
+
+>
+> You're reading a hell of a lot more in there than I put. You seem to be 
+> talking at cross purposes.  When I say inclusion I mean inclusion of another 
+> market that hasn't been catered to before.   You're talking about packages, 
+> I'm talking about people. 
+>   
+
+No, your original post talked about packages, to quote:
+
+********************************************
+
+So for instance as well as the standard software, educational programmes would 
+be installed by default, be NetSafe (Dans Guardian), have OOo4Kids installed 
+as well as a full office suite, Tuxtype, TuxPaint and so on.
+
+Documentation added to show parents how to set up accounts for the kids and 
+how to make it Net safe.
+****************************************
+
+That is a clear recommendation to configure the distro for that target
+audience.  Installing a lot of kid-friendly packages implies they have
+to be in the ISOs, which means that some other packages won't be.
+
+>
+> Now I'm convinced we're not talking about the same thing.
+>
+> You seem to think we are wanting to embark on some global advertising campaign
+>
+> And all I want is to decide what colour pallet  our logo and webpage should 
+> use.  By figuring out what a primary target market is we can then figure out 
+> the colours that will suit that demographic.  That's it Simple!
+>   
+
+As I pointed out above, you advocated targeting the distribution
+*itself* to a niche market.  I really have no interest in what colors
+the website uses; my replies were prompted because I have lots of
+interest in what the distro contains.
+
+