On 8/24/05, Patrick Barnes <nman64@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think having interests lists is a great idea, but I'm not sure that > what you are thinking of is really something we should tackle. What > might be good for us is a small set of documents (I'm thinking in the > wiki) that go over what users with particular interests might like to > look in to. I think you missed my point. I will make it a little clearer. We can write enough documentation to reach from the moon and back...but users have to go read it. Documentation sitting on a website is a passive response which will never reach some of the userbase. Some users are only going to be reached by proactive "notification". Using my wife as another example of this behavior in some users, since she is of course the typical average user... the freebie games she plays in windows are games she gets notified from a little pre-installed taskbar icon. Some sort of online game company HP has a partnership with. Every once in a while the little icon notifies her of a new demo game..she downloads it and plays the few demo levels and is amused. Would she actively search for these things? absolutely not... but because she's being notified of new content (without being overwhelmed. we are talking a notification a week or so) she is made aware of it. > I really don't think that collecting lists of users interests and > sending out mailings would work out well. It would take too many > resources to manage, IMHO. If Eric Meyer's attempt at putting a happy face on the comps for Extras bears fruit.. something of merit might be managable and implementable as a clientside tool which scrapes comps.xml from the yum configuration to notify users of new packages based on their grouping. A neutral entity..is doable..but is an extra upfront burden, because they have to be told about that neutral site.. and then they have to register with that neutral site..and then they have to sift through projects that are in Extras yet..to find things they can actually get reasonable access to and use. A nuetral site.. like freshmeat is exactly what I use to find 'interesting' things.. but I have the skills to build them and package them myself. I've seen far too many people blunder into an addon project and try to rebuild it and get confused to encourage freshmeat watching as THE solution for average computer users. Now the comps based notification approach might not be as fine grained as I might have orignally concieved.. but finding a way to notify users of 'interesting' new packages even by comps group is going to lead to far less confusion than pointing all fedora users to a nuetral site. Since so much effort is going into actually building Fedora specific packages in Extras..I'd rather notify Fedora users of that first and foremost. -jef -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
