Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-11 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:18:06 +1300 John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to butt in here, but I am not sure of the value of this exercise. > Everyone and his dog seem to have a quite clear idea of the "segments" > in GNOME's "market". But how do we know they are real in any sense? > Yo

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread John Williams
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:52 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > > En/na John Williams ha escrit: > > I have just posted a message about this. If we are going to vote, I > > want to nominate > > It was just a rethoric, countless vote. :) > > I was only saying critique like yours to the personas project w

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Quim Gil
En/na John Williams ha escrit: > I have just posted a message about this. If we are going to vote, I > want to nominate It was just a rethoric, countless vote. :) I was only saying critique like yours to the personas project was appropriate, but lacking suggestions about what could we do to

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread John Williams
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 07:12 +0100, Quim Gil wrote: > As a Marketing Team member here is my vote to consider the personas > research as our primary goal in the field of Theory for 2006, being this > project only questioned if somebody comes with a better alternative and I have just posted a message

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Quim Gil
Surely the personas approach is not the perfect solution to our problems, but maybe is one of the best apporach we can deal with now, with our current resources and budget. In any case it sounds like the most """scientific""" approach we have done to the marketing problem, according to some trustf

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Santiago Roza
> Sorry to butt in here, but I am not sure of the value of this exercise. well, i was starting to question its value myself, considering we're basing those "personas" in preconceptions and our limited personal experience with users, instead of carefully collected data. i guess that questioning is

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread John Williams
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 10:59 +0100, Claus Schwarm wrote: > > i started to draft a few characteristics of my "personas"; please tell > > me what you think. remember it's VERY conceptual, they don't even > > have names yet :) Sorry to butt in here, but I am not sure of the value of this exercise. E

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Santiago Roza
> I missed media usage in your personas (or more general: ways to contact > these personas). yeah well i said it was a first draft :) > Oh, and you do need names (and if possible images) yeah you're right, but don't ask me for images cause i can't draw. anyway, we can think of that later i g

Re: gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-10 Thread Claus Schwarm
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 12:39:16 -0300 Santiago Roza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i started to draft a few characteristics of my "personas"; please tell > me what you think. remember it's VERY conceptual, they don't even > have names yet :) > > i didn't know if we should picture only our core segmen

gnome desktop personas - my very first draft

2005-12-07 Thread Santiago Roza
i started to draft a few characteristics of my "personas"; please tell me what you think. remember it's VERY conceptual, they don't even have names yet :) i didn't know if we should picture only our core segments, or a more general scenario, so i took the middle road... but this will have a zill