Fedora's target audience
[Posted October 27, 2009 by corbet]
Fedora's target audience
[Distributions] Posted Oct 27, 2009 15:46 UTC (Tue) by corbet
As part of the Fedora project's continuing effort to figure out what it is
really trying to do, the Fedora board has now come up with a definition of
what it thinks the project's target audience is: "Someone who (1) is
voluntarily switching to Linux, (2) is familiar with computers, but is not
necessarily a hacker or developer, (3) is likely to collaborate in some
fashion when something's wrong with Fedora, and (4) wants to use Fedora for
general productivity, either using desktop applications or a Web
browser." The plan is to use this definition to focus efforts,
while, hopefully, not restricting developments which have appeal beyond
this audience.
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