Defining the target audience (Was Re: low-hanging fruit)

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:43:43PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
 > 
 > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:56:56AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
 > >  
 > >  > want to make a difference with this new derived distribution we need to
 > >  > have a target audience and optimize the experience for this audience
 > >  > instead of the rather direction-less "catch-all-audiences" thing we've
 > >  > been doing with Fedora so far. 
 > > 
 > > The problem I see with defining _a_ target audience is that it by
 > > nature, precludes other audiences.  We have to have at least some
 > > part of the 'catch all audiences' thing going on, or we lose a segment
 > > of our userbase to other distros which cater to their needs.
 > 
 > I don't think we should be too worried about losing a segment of our
 > user base". That is the beauty of the spin concept. You can have
 > kernel-hackers spin that is optimized for a different audience. 
 > And the really big audiences are not part of our userbase at all yet,
 > anyway.

Don't be so sure.  Indirectly, there's at least one target audience
where Fedora is wiping the floor with the competition :-)
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/89041.html

I'm not sure what level of testing we'd need to do for that spin though.

	Dave

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