Jef, FYI I hope you are as much of a lunatic in real life as you are on IRC. On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:27 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 8/24/05, Stuart Ellis <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think this is a model worth looking at - CodeWeavers' "Truth in > > Advertising: Real Dirt": > > > > http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/truth_in_advertising/the_real_dirt/ > > > > They say straight out in a simple language "What works well" *and* "What > > sort of works" and "What doesn't work" > > I like the differentiation of tangible and intangible benefits as well > as the split between instant benefits and long term benefits on the > url. For me, and thus I would assume for other techno-socio-liberal > geeks, a lot of the decision making as to when and if to jump to linux > ends up weighing some of the grander intangibles concerning long-term > equitable access to digital information heavily. As a result I am > willing to make the dauntingly large sacrifice of no longer being able > to play my dusty old copy of X-wing verses Tie-fighter or The > Incredible Machine. > > I drank the Kool-aid, there is no going back for me, I'm quite sure I > look like a raving lunatic to most people. My wife on the other hand, > uses a computer much more pragmatically. We negotiated a dual-boot > arrangement. The machine stays booted into Fedora most of the time. > She boots into windows to play a few freebie games (though I've > introduced her to wesnoth so thats probably going to change), work > with sheet music composition software (the primary reason why a dual > boot was needed.. i couldn't find anything adequate as an open source > project in this area, I think she's using a cut-down version of > Finale), listening to the 30-second clips in itunes pretending she's > going to actually purchase something from the store, and on occasion > do some photo editting with Picasa (if only Google cranked out useful > cross-platform applications). As for the applications she's using the > most right now on linux (determined by what is on her screen everytime > i pass her computer), the obvious email and web browsing dominate like > 90% of her computer usage. Beside that, leading applications include > gourmet, alexandria, gnucash and openoffice followed by gweled. She'd > probably be doing more photo organizing in either operating system if > I didn't have a gallery solution up and running. We are in fact > talking about doing something different in terms of archiving photos > since the space photos are taking up is now a significant amount of > space. > > But she clearly has an advantage compared to other typical computer > users because she has a stark raving lunatic linux nut to ask when she > needs to do something new and needs to find an application that works. > Actually she has more than that, I'm proactively telling her about > 'cool' new projects that I think might interest her. How do we expose > that to the general userbase at large? Can we collect 'personal > interests' and as things get added to Extras we fire off emails to > users who's personal interests overlap with the focus of the new > application package? > > -jef > -jef > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Bob Jensen Linux User http://fedoralinks.org/ -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
