If you haven't already, I recommend reading Kathy Sierra's latest book, "Badass: Making Users Awesome". And yes, absolutely, write for the novice, because absolutely nobody will use a product - even hard-core tech types like me - if they have to go grubbing around in the source, searching Stack Overflow for error messages, etc. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Sandra McCann <scmccann2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks - > > > We’ve been batting around ideas for the virtualization guides for a bit now > in irc, but I’d like to get some more feedback on the approach we can take. > > > Seems there are two personas involved. Using our draft personas we have : > > Technical Tony - experienced IT person virtualizing on servers etc, knows > his stuff and is spinning up VMs like they’re candy. > > Novice Ned (or Novice Nancy in my case :-) - Fairly new to virtualization, > and looking to spin up a VM or two for her own work. > > > Given these two personas, I’d like to suggest that the Virtualization > Getting Started guide be targeted to Novice Nancy. To do this we would: > > Add an installing virtualization tools chapter - simple effort to install > the virtualization group package and bring up virt-manager. (smccann) > > Add an ‘Creating Guests with Virt-Manager chapter - copying from here. > (smccann) > > Adding a ‘Creating Guests with Boxes chapter (grundblom) > > Make minor edits as needed to remove Fedora 19 references and any references > (if present) to a larger set of virtualization guides that may not be > available as F21 guides yet. > > > I also had one question - > > not sure what to do about the list of emulated devices - is it accurate? > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Virtualization_Getting_Started_Guide/sec-virtualized-hardware-devices.html > > > Anyway, I’d like to get the getting started done and committed before > considering the Admin and Deploy guide (because..ahem.. I AM Novice Nancy > here and it will take longer for me to parse that guide). > > > Thoughts? > > Sandra > > > > -- > docs mailing list > docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs -- OSJourno: Robust Power Tools for Digital Journalists http://www.znmeb.mobi/stories/osjourno-robust-power-tools-for-digital-journalists Remember, if you're traveling to Bactria, Hump Day is Tuesday and Thursday. -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
