WEBMAKER: Gather Webmaker user profiles

[secretrobotron]

Gather user profiles for Webmaker to put on build.webmaker.org.

Phase: Research Owner: @secretrobotron Decision: @secretrobotron Consulted: @thornet, @LauraReynal, Hive Lead design: n/a Lead dev: n/a Quality: @thisandagain

Relies on profiles in #58 and #59.

[secretrobotron]

David Guarch

• Handle: @dguarch
• Contact: Lucy
• Barcelona, Spain
• Has a Webmaker section on his website: http://david.guarch.es/
• Threw Maker Party in 2014 (at least)
• Invited his friends and family to learn about Net Neutrality

Photos

• Hosting a Maker Party
• Holding some salami

[secretrobotron]

Sadia

from Bangladesh report

• was really really enthusiastic about using Webmaker app
• comfortable about doing stuff on her own
• prefers to do it herself and tinker!

Motivators

• Self-expression, Attention
• Eager to do something and receive "likes"

[secretrobotron]

Pictures from Bangladesh: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laura_nk/sets/

[secretrobotron]

Amelina

Older, middle-class, passionate about her education. Customized her phone immediately. Wants to craft and share with her friends.

Less interested that she's holding a phone, but still wants to make apps.

Wants to help her peers, have study-groups, etc. More focused on education.

Motivators

• Aspiration, Community
• Wants people around her to succeed.

She goes online today to find ebooks

[secretrobotron]

Lucy

• Kenya
• "Perfect persona"
• University student
• Offline maker! (jewelry) Can we make her an online maker?
• Eager to play.
• Not the type of person to ask for help. If things get too complicated, she won't stick around.
• Motivators: Self-Expression, Aspiration
• "Every student in Kenya is an entrepreneur".
  • Need to appeal to that in Kenya

[secretrobotron]

Equity

• Best partner we could ever have
• Big player in Kenya to work on entrepreneurship
• Strong ground presence
• Perfect values
• :yellow_heart: :heartbeat: :heart: :yellow_heart:

[secretrobotron]

Cliff

• "How can this make me famous?"
• "How can you make it easy so I can teach to my poor 6-year-old neighbours to help them?"
• Excited about learning-through-making, but needs a guide, tutorial, faq, or something to rely on.
• Doesn't have a computer. Needs help on mobile so he doesn't have to go to a cyber café or something.
  • Would try by himself first, but
  • Needs in-tool help
• Motivators: Self-Expression, Aspiration, Utility, Community
• "Change-maker"
• Studies community behaviour
• Super Mentor / Super User / Community Leader / Young Learning

[secretrobotron]

Melanie

• Went online to Facebook on her feature phone by herself to learn about how to make a rabbit farm
  • This shows exactly why she's a good persona
• Farmer

[secretrobotron]

Distilling to 3 + 1 (partner)

• Melanie, Cliff, Sadia
• Equity
• These represent a good spread over the motivations we care about

[secretrobotron]

Information we should publish

• income
• age
• type of phone
• location (ON A MAP) :earth_africa:
• access to computer
• access to internet
• challenges
• dreams
• idols
• motivations
  • 2 motivations primary secondary
  • Aspiration, Community, Utility, Self-Expression
• quote
• picture
• Language
• Familiy
• Why would they care about us/webmaker?
• How they would like to learn ?
• What is their experience with tools and learning online already?

[lauradereynal]

Hey @secretrobotron @thisandagain How about something like this for a template ? in terms of content, not design :construction:

[lauradereynal]

Maybe we could refine more, for example I was think some icons could help on the left grey rectangle. Tried to highlight the TL;DR

[iamjessklein]

Are these actual user profiles? Do the users fit into types? For reference - I found this exercise by the Firefox team useful:

@LauraReynal :+1: I found the content types on your template super useful. The one affordance that I found particularly nice about the FF exercise is that you understand who the user is in relationship to the rest of the project and potentially the world.

[lauradereynal]

Hey @iamjessklein

• Yes they are all real users
• thanks for sharing the Firefox work. I can add some elements under "Drivers" similar to the attributes so we get more of that big picture ! Super useful Thank you

[omnignorant]

Kevin

• 20 yrs old, iPhone, Chicago & Urbana, IL, all over hacking social media
• grew up in an under-served Chicagoland community and went to a high-poverty HS
• Started jailbraking his phones in high school to customize
• got wind of the HS robotics team, got involved, made captain within a few months
• took his public school underdog team to an international robotics competition
• applied for a coding internship at the Adler Planetarium
• spent the summer hacking arduino scripts to run motors for a robot
• (later, secretly admitted the value of code documentation)
• Got into the University of Illinois, now a sophomore working towards a major in electrical engineering
• still hangs around the Adler and volunteers as a peer-mentor

[ldecoursy]

Lajune

• NYU Poly student
• Has volunteered/mentored at many Hive NYC events, Maker Parties, across range of activities (Thimble, ParaPara, art, circuitry)
• Student in Eyebeam's Computational Fashion master class
• Media maker
• active on social media
• @lajunex0
• Motivations: Self-expression, aspiration

Can find out more if interested!

[secretrobotron]

@lucyeoh and @amirad's https://teach.etherpad.mozilla.org/2014contributorstories might be useful to scour too.

[lauradereynal]

To remix for the way we present our personas :smile:

[LauraHilliger]

Check out the "introduce yourself" thread on discourse: http://discourse.webmaker.org/t/come-introduce-yourself-hi/111/105

Introductions through makes: http://discourse.webmaker.org/t/activity-1-introducing-ourselves-through-makes/246/85

Map of people who <3 us: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zl3DbsvLSINY.krBp9G-ZXMq0

And I'll get back to you on specific people who are great.

[ldecoursy]

Caroline Combemale

• 16 years old
• First learned Scratch when she was 8, now organizes a Teens as Teachers program in Pittsburgh (part of Hive Pittsburgh)
• Two profiles:
  • http://hivepgh.sproutfund.org/blog/2014/04/24/youth-teaching-team-brings-programming-to-area-students/
  • http://wesa.fm/post/meet-caroline-combemale-cyber-student-teen-teacher-and-lead-guitarist
• Motivators: Community, Aspiration, Sharing skills

[KathrynMeisner]

Kathryn Barrett

• 24ish
• Hive Toronto member
• Learned to code when she was 12, now teaches Kids Learning Code classes
• Came to Mozfest 2014 to demo KLC's Nuit Blanche exhibit co-designed with youth, lead Mozfest Maker Party Station
• Hosts KLC workshops with Webmaker
• http://learntocodewith.me/women/kathryn-barrett/
• http://kathrynbarrett.ca/about.html

[LauraHilliger]

Stefan Bohacek

• freelance front end developer turned Webmaker mentor and curriculum maker
• with us for 8+ months
• stay at home dad, mid 30s I guess
• found us through one of the teachtheweb moocs
• https://blog.webmaker.org/community-literacies-issue-one
• http://fourtonfish.com/
• http://blog.fourtonfish.com/

[secretrobotron]

We should publish the graph you made as well: https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/plan/issues/59#issuecomment-67637477 :alien: :weary: :rabbit:

[lauradereynal]

Yes, we just need to give him a design pass ;) :cactus: :joy_cat: :exclamation: :boom: :expressionless:

[lauradereynal]

@secretrobotron @iamjessklein New version of the graph featured on #59 and designed by Andrew !

[LauraHilliger]

Loving the progress! Sweet graphic <3

Small nit - maybe think switching the "Exploring" over the left column and "Participating + Building" over the right to just saying Web Literacy and showing advancement along the continuum? Just thinking that the WebLitMap is complex enough that you hit competencies/skills under every strand at every stage (e.g. you start hitting participating skills in the "basic usage" area, and you keep improving exploring competencies as a "super creator").

[thisandagain]

Nice work folks. @secretrobotron good to close given the /audience content you have to date?

[thisandagain]

Tracking work for /audience in https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/plan/issues/74

[secretrobotron]

:+1: will follow up with people here to hone in on profiles I chose.