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Content is aimed primarily at application developers. Three main developer personas have been initially identified for developer.meego.com: 1) experienced developers familiar with the MeeGo environment, 2) experienced developers new to the MeeGo environment, and 3) new developers who have not yet committed to a platform ecosystem. As user personas represent the goals and behaviors of a similar group of website visitors, dividing the target audience into these personas is helpful for planning, identifying and creating content that will help each persona achieve their goals when visiting the site. Defining user personas also helps to ensure a website structure that facilitates a smooth journey toward the needed information.

Though many of the goals and needs of the three personas overlap, the content needs vary depending on a persona's development experience and familiarity with the MeeGo environment. In addition to the individual persona goals, there are also goals that the MeeGo community may hope are achieved when a developer visits the site. The three developer personas and their goals are described below.

Developer persona 1

Experienced application developers, new to MeeGo, mobile and desktop. This persona consists of:

  • Active and passive contributors
  • Commercial and amateur application developers

Persona goals:

  • Get an overview of how to develop in MeeGo
  • Review and evaluate the API documentation
  • Get the SDK
  • Training and support in my timezone and language
  • Get information to help solve a specific problem I encounter in development
  • How to deploy for my device/what devices could I deploy on?
  • How do I distribute my application?
  • What is the market place?
  • Platform roadmap
  • Ongoing projects and how to collaborate
  • Testing resources, including UX testing

Community goals:

  • Minimize fragmentation of the developer ecosystem
  • Deliver a coherent story concerning the MeeGo platform
  • Reduce mailing list traffic within MeeGo developer community
  • Welcome, absorb and engage visitors in MeeGo community
  • Provide channel for feedback of new ideas to develop the MeeGo platform

Developer persona 2

Experienced application developers familiar with the MeeGo environment. This persona consists of:

  • Active and passive contributors
  • Commercial and amateur application developers

Persona goals:

  • Review and evaluate the API documentation
  • Get the SDK
  • Stay up to date with news, events and comments
  • Get information to help solve a specific problem I encounter in development
  • Share knowledge – sample code, solutions, applications
  • How to deploy for my device/what devices could I deploy on?
  • How do I distribute my application?
  • What is the market place?
  • Platform roadmap
  • How to influence future platform roadmaps?
  • Ongoing projects and how to collaborate
  • Testing resources, including UX testing

Community goals:

  • Minimize fragmentation of the developer ecosystem
  • Deliver a coherent story concerning the MeeGo platform and explain inconsistencies
  • Reduce mailing list traffic within MeeGo developer community
  • Cultivate and nurture developers and get recommendations in MeeGo community
  • Provide channel for feedback of new ideas to develop the MeeGo platform

Developer persona 3

New application developers not yet committed to a platform ecosystem. Thia persona consists of:

  • Active and passive contributors
  • Commercial and amateur application developers

Persona goals:

  • Get an overview of how to develop in MeeGo
  • Review and evaluate the API documentation
  • Getting started and measure my progress (competence development plan)
  • Training and support in my timezone and language
  • Get information to help solve a specific problem I encounter in development
  • How to deploy for my device/what devices could I deploy on?
  • How do I distribute my application?
  • What is the market place?
  • Platform roadmap
  • Ongoing projects and how to collaborate
  • Design and developer guidelines
  • Testing resources including UX testing

Community goals:

  • Minimize fragmentation of the developer ecosystem
  • Deliver a coherent story concerning the MeeGo platform
  • Reduce mailing list traffic within MeeGo developer community
  • Guides on how the community works
  • Welcome, absorb and engage visitors in MeeGo community
  • Provide channel for feedback of new ideas to develop the MeeGo platform

Content plan

Overview of planned content categorized by user personas as of Jan 9th, 2011.

Persona goals Developer personas Content elements
1) Experienced application developers, new to MeeGo 2) Experienced application developers familiar with the MeeGo environment 3) New application developers not yet committed to any platform ecosystem
Get an overview of how to develop in MeeGo x x History of Meego
Developer story
API and MeeGo architecture introduction
SDK
How to get started guide
SDK and other tools available
Where to go to get help
FAQs
Review and evaluate the API documentation x x x Meego arctitecture overview and how it relates to documentation
Explanation of the API documentation architecture: how it is generated, were it comes from
Explain search
Get the SDK x x SDK
Training and support in my time zone and language x x People networks (contacts)
Wiki resources
meego.com
forum.meego.com
FAQs
Get information to help solve a specific problem I encounter in development x x x FAQs
New requests for FAQ
Volunteering to create FAQs
Guidelines
Intro to forum.meego.com, visibility of recent activity
Tutorials
How to deploy for my device/what devices could I deploy on? x x x Reference to device/feature/platform wiki
Device guides
OBS guide
How to distribute my application x x x FAQ
Packaging guide
How to put it to the OBS
List of stores (future)
What is the market place? x x x Research material
Roadmap x x x Roadmap wiki
Ongoing projects and how to collaborate x x x Intro text plus link to open source gitorous.org
Testing resources including ux testing x x x Guide on how to test your application
Stay up to date with news, events, comments x Summary of community with links (Blogs, Wikis, Forum, Mailing lists, etc.)
Share knowledge: sample code, solutions, applications x Intro text (plus links) to write a guide or tutorial in the Wiki, and share on forum
How to influence future platform roadmaps? x Intro text to Linux Foundation
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