Hi all,
When reviewing the notes in our Etherpad, I was unsure if we are trying to focus and target users or current/potential contributors for Fedora Women Day 2018.
I was reviewing the Etherpad that Bee started to work in, which has a great start to mapping out some of the goals for this year:
https://etherpad.persephone.cloud/p/diversity-fad-2018
Some of the ideas for this year include resource packages and better ways to measure our impact and success. To this, I feel like we need to first answer who are we targeting? Who should Fedora Women Day appeal to?
I feel that it is best to focus on users instead of contributors. Focusing on contributors limits us except for locations with high concentrations of Fedora contributors. I also believe that users are not always contributors, but contributors are usually always users, so there is overlap that is mutually helpful.
To better provide feedback on the FWD planning this year, I wanted to see what you all thought on who our target audience is and how we should focus our content around that audience.
Thoughts?
Hi!
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
When reviewing the notes in our Etherpad, I was unsure if we are trying to focus and target users or current/potential contributors for Fedora Women Day 2018.
I was reviewing the Etherpad that Bee started to work in, which has a great start to mapping out some of the goals for this year:
https://etherpad.persephone.cloud/p/diversity-fad-2018Some of the ideas for this year include resource packages and better ways to measure our impact and success. To this, I feel like we need to first answer who are we targeting? Who should Fedora Women Day appeal to?
I feel that it is best to focus on users instead of contributors.
Focusing on contributors limits us except for locations with high concentrations of Fedora contributors. I also believe that users are not always contributors, but contributors are usually always users, so there is overlap that is mutually helpful.
I feel that we should offer a few different resource packages to organizers aimed towards different target groups. It would then be up to the organizers to decide what they feel is best for their event. We can definitely offer them some guidelines to consider when they make this choice i.e. number of Fedora contributors attending that event, format of the event (more talks or workshop oriented), target audience etc.
To better provide feedback on the FWD planning this year, I wanted to see what you all thought on who our target audience is and how we should focus our content around that audience.
Thoughts?
Thanks for starting this thread Justin! Can you also share this on ambassadors mailing list so that we can get their perspective and learn from their experience too?
Best, Bee
-- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@gmail.com
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On 04/05/2018 10:47 AM, Bhagyashree Uday wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflory7@gmail.com mailto:jflory7@gmail.com> wrote:
I feel that it is best to focus on users instead of contributors. Focusing on contributors limits us except for locations with high concentrations of Fedora contributors. I also believe that users are not always contributors, but contributors are usually always users, so there is overlap that is mutually helpful.I feel that we should offer a few different resource packages to organizers aimed towards different target groups. It would then be up to the organizers to decide what they feel is best for their event. We can definitely offer them some guidelines to consider when they make this choice i.e. number of Fedora contributors attending that event, format of the event (more talks or workshop oriented), target audience etc.
My concern was there are a limited number of people organizing and planning for all FWDs and trying to offer too much may stretch the team thin. Focusing on one audience allows us to better specialize what we offer and I think also provide a better experience for other FWD organizers.
If a FWD organizer also has a significant concentration of contributors in their region, I would like to see more focus on the existing contributors working together to appeal to others outside of our community. As I understand it, an event that focuses on users is also appealing for contributors because contributors are often also users.
To better provide feedback on the FWD planning this year, I wanted to see what you all thought on who our target audience is and how we should focus our content around that audience. Thoughts?Thanks for starting this thread Justin! Can you also share this on ambassadors mailing list so that we can get their perspective and learn from their experience too?
I was hoping to start this discussion here first so we could figure out what we have the bandwidth to accomplish leading up to September. Right now, I think it will be confusing for others to offer feedback since the idea is still in development. Once there is a better idea of what we can pull off, I think reaching out to others will be more helpful.
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