Tiki Community Audience and Objectives

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There are three parts here:

1. Who is the audience?
2. What can this audience gain from *.Tiki.org sites?
3. What can Tiki gain from this audience?

1.1. Tiki consultants

Someone who earns a revenue via multiple clients for Tiki consulting

What can Tiki Consultants gain from *.Tiki.org sites?

• Qualified leads for projects in their area of expertise / interest
  • luci and Gary: theme integration
  • Bernard: e-commerce
  • etc.
• The credibility coming from their good standing in the community
• Collaboration / help for their projects with clients
• Participate to the future of Tiki

What Tiki can gain from Tiki Consultants?

• Viability of project
• Features and bug fixes
• More feedback and volunteers to manage the project

1.2. Someone evaluating Tiki

Someone that can decide his organisation needs Tiki or to be comforted in choosing Tiki.
@Bernard: can you elaborate on this?
@Marc Laporte: Done on telegram

To do a good job here, we need more granularity because there are so many variants.

Profile of person

• enterprise vs freelancer vs non profit vs government ...
• sysadmin vs developer vs entrepreneur vs manager vs graphic artist vs technical writer vs generalist...

Type of project

For own project vs a tool to deploy and help others vs a tool to build a service

What is person looking for?

• Is the person here for the mission? or the features? or both?
• A community project to avoid vendor lock-in
• A community project to participate in?
• To pay a vendor and have something that "just works"

c) For himself or for someone having the task of using Tiki (someone else chose for him)
@Bernard: I don't understand, sorry

Examples of questions to answer

• What problem(s) does Tiki solve?
• Who uses it?
  • Social proof
  • Inspiration (case studies)
  • Awards
• How rich it is ? (themes, web-components, ...)
• What solutions it fits the best (examples, working sites, etc.)
• How does it do it?
• How can I access a demo?
• How can I install on my laptop? on my server? on my AWS account?
• How does it compare to other solutions?
  • (We should be very subtle )
    • Can you elaborate? What does this mean? And why?
    • @Marc Laporte: Using a blurred comparison content without naming our competitors. No one is doing this anymore.
• Who supports it?
• What is license?
• What will be cost of my project?

1.3. Tiki site admin

This assumes Tiki has already been chosen, and now a power user (Not a developer) is managing it

• How to upgrade, ideally with a 1-click installer
• Where to host?
• How to migrate a Tiki from one host to another?
• How to get support? (free vs paid)
• How to report a bug?
• Custom theme
  • How can I make one?
  • How can I commission a specialist to convert a theme to Tiki?

What can site admin gain from *.Tiki.org sites?

• Leveraging Tiki better by learning from others
• Participate to the future of Tiki

What Tiki can gain from site admins?

• More feedback and volunteers to manage the project

1.4. New developer

This assumes Tiki already been chosen, and now a developer is involved. Knows how to code and we want to make it easy to turn into active contributor

• Where is source code?
• Where is Docker?
• How to make a merge request

What can new devs gain from *.Tiki.org sites?

• Can commit code directly in the core
• Work opportunities
• Participate to the future of Tiki

What Tiki can gain from new devs?

• Commits
• Help with development process (releases, etc)

Related

• tiki-download_wiki_attachment.php?attId=687 presented at TikiFest2008-Montreal-3
  • Interesting presentation. Please see personas
• Look at all questions and options here: https://tikitrackers.org/Demo