[drupal-docs] User Personas for Drupal Documentation: Calvin the Student Activist

[Andre Molnar]

Kieran Lal wrote:
> 
> On May 13, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Andre Molnar wrote:
> 
>> I was reading the personae and thought it would be a fun exercise to 
>>
>> create another one.  I've posted to the wiki, but thought I would add a 
>>
>> post here as well for discussion.
>>
> 
> This is what I absolutely love about working in Open Source.  
> It's truly an amazing way to work.

Isn't it great :-)

> Andre, you probably have the best idea of who Calvin the activist is.  
> Just so you know he is actually inspired after Mr. Calvin a Brazilian 
> activist who contacted CivicSpace last week to produce a Portugese 
> version of Drupal :-)

Parts of my Calvin were based on people I knew in my university days 
(lots of passion, big ideas, time to contribute, low on cash).  The rest 
of my Calvin is based on a typical 21 year old that's grown up with 
computers and 'discovered' the web in his/her teen years - which comes 
from my own personal competitive and trend analysis (some of these punks 
will be my competition in a couple of years - a few are already ;-)

> Here is the research results from the documentation 
> survey:  http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2248J7XSE9C

1 of 41% who said that they visit the site 2-3 times per week

At first Calvin would be
1 of 18%-22% who said they are attempting to install a Drupal site
1 of 34% who said they need a product overview of Drupal that tells me 
what it does and doesn't do

and become
1 of 69% who said that they administer a Drupal site
1 of 40% who said they need a tutorial to teach them how to administer 
Drupal
1 of 66% who said they need Drupal administration information
1 of 69% who said they would return to read the documentation
1 of 31% who said they would return to read FAQs

> If you want to poke through and map the Calvin persona to survey 
> percentages that would be great.   You have done a great job, so I can 
> also take it from here if you want.

I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.
If you'd like to edit the persona and take it from here be my guest.

I'm just glad to contribute whenever I have a few spare moments to do 
so.  I hope this exercise was of some value.

andre