Meeting:Board strategic working group 2010-03-15

Role Call

• Attendees: John Poelstra, Mike McGrath, Colin Walters, Paul Frields, Chris Tyler
• Regrets: Matt Domsch

• Last meeting: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/advisory-board/2010-February/008135.html

User Base

• Discussion of User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience + diagram sent in separate email
  • http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/paste-bin/user-base-v3.pdf
  • John: Remove call-outs on the left and marketing language at the bottom
  • Paul: Make lower part of triangle bigger to represent that User Base is much larger
  • Paul: Maybe make another version of the triangle showing what proportions might look like in the future.
  • Colin, Paul, Chris: Use gradient instead of solid line between groups
  • Colin: add some gradients and remove the hard line between the top triangle and bottom
    • Colin: Make it easy for people to be contributors without joining devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
• Idea of a "Minimum bar"
  • This is the most basic profile of a person that we want to be interested in our distribution
  • The distribution is the primary gateway to participation + contribution
• Does it make more sense in the context of upward progression to cast this as a "user base" instead?
  • Pyramid model matches the model of user -> contributor that is used in communities of practice (such as in CommArch)
  • Colin: could enhance by thinking of axis: frequency of contribution vs. experience level
    • Maybe split into two triangle, one as involvement and one as skill
    • draw parallel to community of contribution diagrams
• NEXT STEPS:
  1. John to modify diagram
  2. Upload diagram to a wiki page
  3. Request that board review the diagram for consistency with user base wiki pages User_base
  4. Agree that this topic is closed User:Poelstra/What_is_a_target_audience

Spins

• User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
• User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
  • Provides the answers to the originally proposed pages
  • For pain points make sure we have links to where we are addressing them
• User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribution
• NEXT STEPS:
  • Colin to add redirects, add links and tidy up as applicable to show how we have addressed the questions originally raised

Distribution Pages

• User:Pfrields/Current_default_offering
• User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
• Both pages will go before the board on Thursday
• NEXT STEPS:
  • Paul to put before board at next meeting

Next Meeting

• Paul will do a proposal to answer the question, "If the Desktop Spin is the default offering, does this mean the Desktop team defines the user experience for all of Fedora?"
  • Chris: we should consider and address why this discussion keeps coming up
• Monday March 29 @ 3 PM EST
  • skipping next week because Paul and John have conflicts