On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:27 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Fedora Documentation Project" <fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:11 PM > Subject: structure for F10 final release notes > > [clip] > > 3. What is to celebrate for musicians, artists, and other > > creative types? > > 4. What is the new stuff for gamers, scientists, and > > hobbyists? > > This is an interesting breakdown. I suspect that when technical people > think of hobbyists, technical hobbies come to mind, so the grouping with > scientists might make sense. That does, however, leave out non-technical > hobbyists. I have to admit, not being a stamp collector or a quilter, I > don't really know that there is anything for non-tech hobbyists, but I > suspect there is. Including the gamers totally confuses me though. I would > think they have more in common with the "creative" types. Good point, I was using the common to Linux narrow hobbyist definition, that is, people who play with Linux for personal rather than professional reasons. There is also some crossover with power users. > I'm not sure I can propose a better breakdown, though. It does seem like > there is a big difference between creative and entertainment ... i.e., a > music player has a very different audience than a music composition app. > The former has more in common with the gamer, in fact, in terms of > "entertainment", while the latter is probably closer to, say, an electronic > design suite, actually "creating" something rather than using it. Of > course, intuitively, they are pretty far apart. > > Perhaps > - "Artistic" - Creating/composing art > - "Entertainment" - Movie and music players, games > - "Techical" - Science, math and technical hobbies (because tech hobbies are > often hard to distinguish from professional use of the same tools) > - "Hobby" - The myriad of other hobbies, collecting loads of different kinds > of "stuff", crafts, geneaology and all those dogs and cats that tend to have > maybe one app each Not a bad evolution. I wonder if it is worth absorbing separate power user content in to those groups? > I have to admit, doesn't sound nearly as good a "What is to celebrate" We'll find some good wording for it. :) - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, Community Gardener Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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