profiling
Ubuntu Education Programme : Planning : Profiling
[ purpose of this page ]
To manage the profiling activity and results.
Focus Point #1
* Understand our Users and Stakeholders
- Initiative #1 : Profile User and Stakeholders
- List all of the types of people who have an interest or interaction with:
- the Edubuntu product for any use
- any Ubuntu product for Education use
- Identify Categories of Users
- List all of the types of people who have an interest or interaction with:
Order of Priority for this Exercise
- the Edubuntu product for any use in Education
- the Edubuntu product for any use outside of Education
- any Ubuntu product for Education use
Categories of Stakeholders
Convention for usage of format and terms
- category
- sub-category 1
- sub-category 2
Category List
1. School
1.1 Pre-School
1.2 Primary School
1.3 Secondary School
2. University
2.1 Physical University
2.2 Correspondence University
3. Education Department
3.1 School Education
3.2 Tertiary Education
4. Government Education Ministry
4.1 Legislative
4.2 Executive
5. Home
5.1 Primary
5.2 Supplemental
to work in
Scholar @ Home
Student @ Home
Parent of Scholar @ Home
Parent of Student @ Home
6. Civic
6.1 Library
7. Commercial
7.1 iCafe
8. Services
8.1 Support
8.2 Training
8.2.1 Support
8.2.2 Consulting
8.2.3 Services Administrator
- 9. Education Content Provider
9.1 Print
9.2 Electronic
10. Publishing
10.1 Print
10.2 Electronic
11. Media
11.1 Television
11.2 Radio
11.3 Print
11.3.1 Newspapers
11.3.2 Magazines
12. Hardware Manufacturer
12.1 Traditional Computer
12.1.1 PC
12.1.2 Mac
12.2 Low Cost Appliance
12.2.1 Thin Clients
12.2.2 OLPC
12.2.3 Other
12.3 Communication Devices
12.3.1 Mobile Phones
12.3.2 PDAs
12.4 Peripherals
12.4.1 Interactive Whiteboards
12.4.2 Other
to work in
OEM
OEM Developer (employee)
OEM Partner Manager
OEM Organisation
13. Hardware Refurbisher
- 14. Developer
14.1 Linux – OS
14.2 Linux – Desktop – Gnome
14.3 Linux – Desktop – KDE
14.4 Linux – General Utilities
14.5 Linux – Education Applications
- 15. Development Programs
15.1 National Programs
15.2 NGO Programs
- 16. Regional Programs
16.1 Derivatives
16.2 Language
- 17. Ubuntu Organisations
17.1 Local Communities
17.2 Ubuntu Developers
17.3 Derivates
17.3.1 Regional
17.3.2 Niche
17.3.2.1 Religion: Christian
- 18. Regional Programs
18.1 Online Organisations
18.2 Communities
18.3 Portals
18.4 Web Sites
- 19. Special Needs Programs
19.1 Blind
19.2 Disability
Consider how to handle these Categories
Further Education / Adult Education
adapt the roles listed under 2. University ?
adapt the roles listed under 5. Home ?
Educational Materials Providers
Publishers of Educational Content
adapt the roles listed under 9. Education Content Provider ?
Partner
- Contracted Business
- Associate
- Content
- Tools
- Media
- Reviewers etc.
- Games ?
- Internet Service Providers
- In the future, ISP might offer Hosted Edubuntu offerings
- Re-group Developers ?
- summarize:
- Developers into 'Partner Developers' (LTSP, Schooltool, ...)
- 'Upstream Developers' (Gnome, KDE, ...)
- Downstream Developers
- Changed from 'Developers' to *Related Communities*
- add categories like:
- Partner Maintainers (MOTU),
- Upstream Maintainers (Debian, Debian-Edu, ...)
- Artists, Opinion Leaders,
- Interest Groups, etc
- add categories like:
- summarize:
~-Notes-~
1.University
includes all tertiary education centres college, polytech, university
2. Education Department
includes all levels, local, regional, provincial, national
5.1 Primary
primary access access point for computer use
5.2 Supplemental
supplemental access access point for computer use
comments from Richard Weideman
comments from Philip Schroder
Potential Focus Areas
1. LTSP Environments
1.1 School
1.2 Library
1.3 iCafe
2. Regional Focus
2.1 Territory
2.2 Country
2.3 Region
Principles
- Default contact point is: Education Programme Manager
- All Areas.
- All Issues.
- Ony when there is a more specific contact, this changes.
Resources
- Existing
- 1.1 Company 1.2 Support 1.3 Community 1.4 News
*** NEXT TASK ***
- mail lists
- forums
- help site
- ubuntu newsletter
- Planned
- education speficic newsletter
- blogs
Community Recruitement
- Art Team
- to supplement:
- cbx33
- to supplement:
Planned Ubuntu Education Space
Naming of the Ubuntu Education Space
With respect to:
- short name
- full name
- and potential web domain
MUST
- must relate to Edubuntu product
- must relate to Ubuntu product in Education use
- must reinforce Ubuntu brand as the overall brand
- must reinforce Ubuntu community as the overall community
- (i.e. Ubuntu community is at the base of our community)
- must appeal to all broad Education Community Members
- Users
- Administrators
- Stakeholders
- Decision Makers
- must be easy to remember
- must be easy to explain
- must be available for domain name registration if needed
- xxx.org
- xxx.com
- xxx.net
MUST NOT
- must not be controversial to anyone anywhere
- must not be klever or insider Open Source / IT joke
SHOULD
- should ideally be able to be generalised to other ubuntu niche solution areas e.g
- Ubuntu iCafe
- Ubuntu Medical
- Ubuntu Commercial
- Ubuntu Financial
- should ideally be able to be generalised to other ubuntu niche solution areas e.g
COULD
- could be official sub-domain of ubuntu.com
- but then needs "official approval at times"
- could be an unofficial domain name closely associated to ubuntu.com
- and then then does not need "official approval at any time"
- could be official sub-domain of ubuntu.com
[ document details ]
This page is a planning and discussion document for open discussion.
See also:
- Author
- Richard Weideman
- Education Programme Manager
IRC #edubuntu <RichEd>
- Editing
- Please sugest changes to the author via email rather than modifying directly
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