[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Thu Oct 7 02:14:03 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-06 17:27, andré a écrit :
+> 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)
+>
+
+Actually, Mandriva did do this, but on a smaller scale, when installing 
+the ISO you got the the choice of desktop KDE, GNOME or personalized 
+(http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/Installer_Mandriva_Free#Choix_du_bureau). 
+In the personalized section, you could still choose (in my case) the KDE 
+but also any other "distro type" of pick that you wanted. It would make 
+sense to offer the choices here. For example "Gamer"; "Business"; 
+"Music"; "Video"; "Education" etc. The users could, at this point, 
+tailor the installation to one that would suit them best according to 
+their needs. All on one DVD! No need to have multiple type of DVD's.
+
+This would be simple enough.
+
+Marc
+
+