[Users] Project personas

After an interesting presentation by Dave Neary today we started thinking about the persona[*] of the ovirt project users We focused on the users of the new coming feature of UI plugins. And this was our vision of an active user: Name: Dan Age: 25 Job position: an integrator at a medium sized service company Technical level: computer savvy person with interest in gadgets and innovations. Has about two years of java coding experience, but coding may not be his main focus at work. Reason for using the UI Plugins feature: After getting requests from his costumers for simple log monitoring feature, the integration team leader have decided that implementing this as a Plugin for ovirt would offer a more centralised solution and has assigned dan to start getting familiar with it and give him a time estimation for completion. By creating a more accurate persona(s) of the user base we could more easily understand the needs of the users and steer the project in more productive and helpful ways for the people that really need it. It would be very interesting to see what others think this "person" is like and what does he need. so who do you feel is the likely user? In hopes of making ovirt better and more relevant to its users, Noam. :) [*] For those who don't know what a persona is: It's a fictional "person" that represents the users/costumers/"people of interest" of a product. by giving this "person" a name, age, education level and other traits its easier to relate and vision "his" needs ***** In the future the question we ask ourselves will change from "what do I want?" to "what do I want to want?" And if this does not scare you, you haven't thought about it hard enough. *****