[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Thu Oct 7 01:29:11 CEST 2010

My purposes for my computer is primarily for home office purposes with the 
+occasional gaming.  I would say that would be the typical target audience.  
+
+Do you remember, years ago, how Mandriva had a kind of "store" where you could 
+buy software, a one click installation system.  Would it be possible to do 
+custom installation through a kind of web-based gui to keep it simple for 
+those first starting off with Linux.  I'm thinking, something like the "App 
+Store" that Apple uses.  It could be free or some things could be for cost... 
+just a thought.  
+
+-Nathan
+
+On Wednesday, 06 October 2010 17:27:20 andré wrote:
+> 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)
+