User:Johan G/Essays/Essay:Our target audiences — how are they best served
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Some thoughts about who our target audiences are and how are they best served.
I have sometimes been wondering about if and how we try reach target audiences, but some edits make me wonder more towards if.
Target groups
I would love some more thoughts about this. As I see it there are mainly these often distinct, but often overlapping audiences:
- Wiki editors (the ones I am trying to reach here).
- FlightGear users:
- Without any knowledge on what is going on underneath the hood
- That have personalized configuration like preferences.xml and joystick configuration files etc.
- That have tinkered with their favorite aircraft
- "Data developers":
- Aircraft, object and instrument modelers
- FDM and systems developers
- Nasal coders
- Texture and livery artists
- Core developers
How do we make sure each group:
- Find what they are looking for:
- When they think they should be looking for one thing, but really are looking for something else
- When they do know what they are looking for, but do not know the proper terms to look for
- When they actually do know exactly what they look for
- Quickly know if they are on the right track or not
- Do not get confused by what they find (or get a mental buffer overflow)
- Get tempted to learn more
- Get tempted to contribute