[drupal-docs] [research] Maximizing Drupal's Impact on Communities

[Andre Molnar]

I am very interested in whatever results you come up with.

Artists have already been identified as a potential target market for 
Drupal.  It would be wonderful to have a complete detailed needs 
assessment done for this particular target market.

 From the research it would also be easy to define the proto-typical 
'artist' or create an artist 'persona' - which would be useful to not 
only marketing efforts, but also general documentation.

When you say 'artists' do you mean all artists or only visual and new 
media artists?  Will you include Musicians? Performers? Writers?

I'm looking forward to seeing your work in progress as well as the final 
analysis.

andre
farsheed wrote:
> Hello, 
> I'm looking for some feedback from the Drupal
> community on some research I will soon be performing. 
> It is an effort to maximize drupal's effectiveness as
> a community building tool.  I have chosen to research
> artist communities due to their desperation for
> resources, lack of formal attention, existing
> community framework, and their dependence on emerging
> internet and media technologies. 
> - Farsheed
> ------------------
> Connecting the Dots: Research Efforts to Maximize
> Drupal's Effectiveness on Communities
> 
> Purpose: 
>   To start bridging the communication gap between
> Drupal developers and communities by performing
> research on a specific community (artists) and
> establishing their needs.  Documenting how drupal
> development can help meet the needs of artist
> communities while keeping development broad enough
> that the tools can be used with other communities as
> well.  Hopefully spark similar research in other
> community types.
> 
> Research Goals:
> 1) Establish and define the key challenges artists and
> musicians face as workers in their respective
> industries.
> 2) Engage the drupal/civicspace community members that
> have built or have an interest in building
> artist/music community building tools.  Identify and
> analyze challenges they have met, determine if and how
> they solved their problems and what (if any) problems
> they anticipate in the future.
> 
> Analysis Goals:
>    Effectively establish formal research stating what
> different artist community needs are (in general) and
> how Drupal might be able to solve those problems. 
> Develop several key art and music business models that
> could benefit from Drupal's current and possibly
> future functionality.  Build a roadmap that shows what
> Drupal development is necessary to create
> functionality, keeping in mind that development should
> be broad enough that it can be applied to other
> community types and will benefit the Drupal community
> as a whole.
> 
> Research Methodology:
> One-on-one interviews, surveys, analysis and
> discussion with Civicspace/Drupal members, observation
> of existing community with analysis
> 
> Deliverables:
> Generate report detailing research purpose, methods
> and conclusions and possible future research.  Develop
> audience analysis, personas and scenarios (business
> models) to help connect Drupal with target
> communities and cater development to maximize the
> impact of Drupal development for all communities.
> 
> 
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