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

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

~-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
- http://www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.edubuntu.org
- http://wiki.ubuntu.com
- http://wiki.edubuntu.org
*** NEXT TASK ***
- mail lists
- forums
- help site
- ubuntu newsletter
Planned
- education speficic newsletter
- blogs

Community Recruitement

Art Team
- to supplement:
  - AliasVegas
  - cbx33

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
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"

[ document details ]

This page is a planning and discussion document for open discussion.

See also:
- Planning
- Education Planning Overview
Author
- Richard Weideman
- Education Programme Manager
- IRC #edubuntu <RichEd>
- richard@ubuntu.com
Editing
- Please sugest changes to the author via email rather than modifying directly