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

[Will Moy]

Hi everyone,

Following what Ron said, I'm not sure if user personae are meant represent our current user base or our target user base?

Cheers,

Will

> -----Original Message-----
> From: drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org]On Behalf Of Andre Molnar
> Sent: 14 May 2005 07:54
> To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] User Personas for Drupal Documentation:
> Calvin the Student Activist
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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