<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Thorsten Wilms <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t_w_@freenet.de">t_w_@freenet.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>What now feels to be an eternity ago, Mark Shuttleworth in a Community<br>
Council session, <a href="http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/09/02/%
23ubuntu-meeting.html" target="_blank">http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/09/02/%<br>
23ubuntu-meeting.html</a>:<br>
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22:09 in terms of audience, i think we have to aim for young<br>
professionals who are web-savvy<br>
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22:14 if we are ambitious, we want to serve all human beings<br>
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22:15 so, the only reason i focused on young web-savvy professionals is<br>
they will be the standard-bearers for taking ubuntu to a wider audience<br>
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22:15 and they are probably attracted to particular ideas in design<br>
like the iphone used web 2.0 ideas<br>
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----</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think standing by the comment at 22:09 (or of course a better defined version of it) would help so much in focusing Ubuntu's design work. But alas 5 minutes later it's all dashed. I really think we're shooting ourselves in the foot trying to aim at everybody. It's an impossible goal. It tremendously weakens the resulting design. This is a well established principle of design. Audience and goal. I know many people on this list have probably seen this, but it's such a wonderful and spot-on post by Havoc Pennington on the subject.(<a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-February/msg00174.html">http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-February/msg00174.html</a>) </div>
<div><br></div><div>The sad thing is it's 4 years ago that he wrote it. </div><div><br></div><div>No one is listening.. well.. that's not entirely accurate. Some people apparently are: <a href="http://blog.cberger.net/2010/03/02/the-difficult-choice-of-removing-features/">http://blog.cberger.net/2010/03/02/the-difficult-choice-of-removing-features/</a></div>
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