On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:29:41PM -0300, Diogo Campos (gmail) wrote: > >1) it may sound blunt, but users often don't know what they want. > >Henry Ford nailed it by this quote: “If I had asked people what they > >wanted, they would have said faster horses.” > In fact, my original idea is to ask to people what they are, what > they do, what they use, what they know, and what they like(?), NOT > (at least not exactly/directly) what they want. Yeah. Figuring out what to ask and how to ask it is important, as is getting the survey to the right groups. In any case, I think we could definitely benefit from such a survey, and not just in the desktop space (although separate surveys or parts of the survey for cloud/server/workstation might make sense). Maybe take this discussion over to Marketing (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing) — we actually talked about just this at the Council meeting today. For that matter, a user survey has been a long-time interest of the Fedora Board (now council) — see <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/1> and <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/16>. > But, BTW, a car IS a "faster horse". Isn't? One thing worth noting is that Ford had some pretty good feedback on whether he was right or not. People bought his cars, or they didn't — and either the company made a profit, or failed. We don't count anything that is equivalent to that in Fedora. I'm definitely open to ideas on how we could do that. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
