[Users] Project personas

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Noam Slomianko" <nslomian at redhat.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:00:15 PM
> Subject: [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
> 
> 

Thanks Noam,
I'd love to see others share their thoughts / similar work on $SUBJECT.
So with additional inputs to help us improve the focus.

Doron