I fear than for many people, the "power user" is somebody else. Better should be "curious user" "freemind user", "active user", I mean any user that don't use his computer in the stock configuration (as opposit of what my sister do, who don't know what is a program or an application!), but also anybody that have a friend or relative that can do this for him. may be simply "productive user" (without power) is enough.
I think the "productive poweruser" is pretty similar to the "technical user" I proposed as a target in the platform strategy. The criteria I offered was "everybody who ever bought a computer magazine", so people who like to understand how something works, who make heavy use of their systems, probably tweak it to some degree, but of course still need a good range of standard applications for handling everyday tasks.
I'd identify them as people who like to use computers to do stuff, and have taken the trouble to learn a bit about their tool of choice. The distribution platform strategy shares the benefit of this strategy in that it's about what the software can be used for rather than what it's made of. The cloud computing strategy could be fit into this mould if it were about presenting a coherent computing platform across a wide variety of hardware architectures including cloud (distributed, cluster and virtual servers), mobile, desktop, laptop, thin client etc etc. It would then have sense from my perspective (I would know I could load openSUSE on any platform and immediately be productive on it, and I could develop software and transport it from one architecture to another (relatively) painlessly. It's all about what you can do with it rather than what it's made of. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org