[Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

Thu Oct 7 10:03:30 CEST 2010

Le jeudi 7 octobre 2010 02:14:03, Marc Paré a écrit :
+> 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
+> 
+
+something like : http://www.juzt-innovations.ie/fedora-linux-backup/linux-
+fedora-custom-install.jpg
+
+-- 
+Olivier Méjean
+Président de l'Association des Utilisateurs Francophones de Mandriva Linux
+http://mandrivafr.org
+twitter : obagoom
+identi.ca : goom
+