Defining the target audience (Was Re: low-hanging fruit)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:27 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:56:56AM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
>  
>  > want to make a difference with this new derived distribution we need to
>  > have a target audience and optimize the experience for this audience
>  > instead of the rather direction-less "catch-all-audiences" thing we've
>  > been doing with Fedora so far. 
> 
> The problem I see with defining _a_ target audience is that it by
> nature, precludes other audiences.  We have to have at least some
> part of the 'catch all audiences' thing going on, or we lose a segment
> of our userbase to other distros which cater to their needs.

I don't think we should be too worried about losing a segment of our
user base". That is the beauty of the spin concept. You can have
kernel-hackers spin that is optimized for a different audience. 
And the really big audiences are not part of our userbase at all yet,
anyway.