Re: [Userops] What is "userops", and who does it target?

[Dave Crossland]

On 13 April 2015 at 05:39, Elena ``of Valhalla'' <address@hidden> wrote:

On 2015-04-12 at 16:25:52 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> > 4) A very non-technical user.  This person may be able to install
> >    applications from (sorry to use this term) "an app store" or etc, and
> >    interacts with computers, but lacks a lot of self confidence or
> >    skills regarding understanding how the technology they're working
> >    with works at all.
>
> And this is typically someone who is unlikely to have heard of "open
> source," no longer owns a desktop and is laptop/tablet/phone only, doesn't
> buy any sofa servers as uses the one supplied by the cable company...
> UserOps is a lost cause :)

Not necessarily: in various (political, social, *) activism environments
there are lots of people who ... have at least somebody in the 3 range who can
help them, and targetting 3 can have at least some consequences
for interested people in 4.

I agree, so I think of them as part of group 3.