User:Poelstra/Target audience personas

Issue
How much should the personas work factor into our work to define a target audience for the default Fedora Distribution offering?

Background

 * An effort was started to identify the Fedora's Distribution's target audience using personas
 * Some interviews were conducted, but no one is currently able to dedicate time the effort.
 * User Research Plan
 * Approximately 10 hours of work (possibly more) remains to interview people and collect the data.
 * Several more hours after interviews to analyze the data and start developing personas based on it.

Possible Solutions

 * 1) Drop the personas work until someone can carry and lead it
 * 2) Seek funding for someone to complete the personas work
 * 3) Seek out volunteers in Fedora to carry the personas work to its conclusion
 * 4) Other solutions?

Risk/Benefit Analysis

 * Finishing the personas work would provide a wider body of information for the Board to make an informed decisions on the Fedora distro's target audience.
 * Without a clear leader of this effort who has time to commit to it, the likelihood of this effort finishing soon and producing timely information appears to be low.

Other Thoughts/Considerations

 * Have we been clear enough that the Target Audience discussion is about the users of the Fedora Distribution and not the Fedora Project as a whole?
 * Should we explicity state or call out somewhere--in an FAQ?

Recommendation from 2010-02-08 Meeting

 * Request help from community. If there is no community interest or leadership then close it.
 * Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-02-08
 * Request sent on 2010-02-12
 * http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-February/007964.html
 * There was no response