Server/Personas

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This document is a work-in-progress draft and has not been agreed upon yet.

Discussion

• 'Discussion of Fedora Server use-cases' mailing list thread

Personas

• ‘application developer’ could be one right? someone who wants to build server applications
• ‘home/small business’ where they are constrained to one server/limited resources?
• ‘enterprise datacenter’ where they want to roll out many server instances and automate.
• A mid-level Microsoft administrator who does not have time for a steep learning curve.

Persona #1

Sandra Summers

Senior System Administrator, New Amsterdam Historical Society

"We're a small organization and we have limited resources... we can't order new hardware for every new service request we get."

• Profile MacGyver
• Age 35
• Location Brooklyn, New York
• Technical Level Intermediate to Advanced
• Technical Skill Master
• Years Experience 15
• Primary Tools ? (Do they use puppet / nagios / etc. etc.)
• Referral Team members, USENIX mailing lists, blogs

Questions / Discussion Points

Who are our users?

• "I think the idea of focusing on target users is important here. Will having a GUI for servers help us grow Fedora Server use? Is it where we should put effort over other things that would grow it *more*? Who are the users, and, short of market research, do we have the collective expertise to make a reasonable case?" --mattdm