[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Wed Oct 6 23:27:20 CEST 2010

Hoyt Duff a écrit :
+> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, andré<andr55 at laposte.net>  wrote:
+>    
+>> So far in simplified terms, for the "education" target, we have focus on
+>> school boards in US/Canada and Australia/New Zealand; focus on regional
+>> gov'ts in Germany.
+>>      
+Here I mean focus in terms of promotion, not in terms of the content of 
+the DVD.
+> Do you have a link to any Mandriva docs that detail how the package
+> lists for different "targets" can be created and implemented?
+>    
+In short, it would be part of creating the installation DVD.
+
+Mandriva does not implement this function in a manner useful to our 
+purposes.
+Let me explain.
+
+There would be a number of install groups, (for want of a better 
+expression), all on the same DVD.
+Each group will have a list of packages to be installed, which could be 
+individually selected/deselected as desired.
+This is similar to what is already available on a Mandriva install DVD, 
+with an important difference : install groups would not be mutually 
+exclusive.
+
+In other words, the "education" group (targeting school needs), the 
+"young family" group (targeting families with young children), and the 
+"home office" group, would probably all contain, for example, a version 
+of OpenOffice (be it Go-oo, LibreOffice, or the officiel OpenOffice from 
+Oracle/Sun).
+Currently, on a Mandriva installation DVD, each application is in only 
+one group.("Server" being one of their groups.)
+
+Overlapping installation groups allows us to target many uses on the 
+same DVD.
+We could consider a target as a usage focus.
+Many users would have more than one focus -- for example, developers 
+would want various development tools, as well as maybe "home office" if 
+they are an independant consultant.
+There also could be a multi-level tree.  A global group for developers, 
+with a sub-group for packagers (RPM tools), another for C/C++, another 
+for Perl, etc.
+Or for a potentially more common theme, a global group for education, 
+with sub-groups for "pre-school/kindergarten", "elementary", 
+"secondary", "post-secondary".
+And these various subgroups would almost necessarily have overlaps.
+The possibilities are only limited by our collective imaginations.
+
+The more I think of this, I see an advantage of allowing the DVD 
+installer to access an external group file, (on a usb memory key for 
+example), for more flexibility on installation.
+Especially useful to install the same software selection on a large 
+number of computers -- without creating a custom installation DVD.
+
+Think of the potential :)
+
+- André (andre999)
+