Personas

Personas

The following personas are representative and they will evolve.

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Google

is hungry for your linked datas so she can serve you up search traffic

You know Google, right? That little business based in Mountain View. The one that serves hand-crafted, small-batch, globally-sourced datas in return for your eyeballs? That Google. We care about Google because Google are no longer offering Google Code-like tools for developers, so we have taken it upon ourselves to improve Google search for software. We also care a little (as in enough to have them, but not enough to ruin the UX of the site) about money generated from ads, they more than pay for our hosting costs.

Searcher (Ada)

A developer with a problem, she is looking for something to help solve it.

  • Age: 25
  • Education: BSc Computer Science
  • Lives: London
  • Works: Marketing agency
  • Role: Developer/Engineer
  • Likes: Cycling, Cats, Animé

Common Tasks

  • Find a project by name ex. ‘erubis’
  • Find a project by domiain/problem ex. ‘a web framework for node’
  • Check # of dependencies for a project (first level and ‘deep’/transitive dependencies)
  • Check for licence incompatibilities
  • Check for project responsiveness, community, support
  • Save projects for use in later work

Ada is a senior software developer, four years out of her computer science degree. She cycles from home into the office in Soho, London where she works at small but ambitious marketing agency who specialise in websites for new products and advertising campaigns. She works alongside four other developers and two front-end designers. The team has two account managers who support them, and two directors who do the ‘creative’ work. The agency is run on a tight budget, in a competitive market, pitching for projects against other small agencies. Like a lot of young agencies they rely on open source software to lower their production costs.

Ada uses Libraries.io to vet libraries she might want to use on a current or future project. Sometimes she hears about a project from a friend, reads about it on hackernews or sees talk about it at a conference. She’s thinks it might come in handy but wants to know a little more: is the library is reliable, actively developed, is there good documentation and a community to support her if she comes unstuck?

Researcher/Extender (Charlie)

has her own ideas. She wants access to the raw data so that she can mash up her own service and offer it to the world.

  • Age: 42
  • Education: PhD
  • Lives: New York
  • Works: Charitable Foundation
  • Role: Lead Developer
  • Likes: Jazz, Travelling, Photography

Charlie has been studying software ecosystems for six months as part of a grant-funded piece of work from a charitable foundation. She is contracted for the next two years to produce a academic paper and website identifying patterns that lead to open source projects becoming successful and falling out of favour. This data will be used by the foundation to prioritise projects within their target sectors that need support.

Charlie uses Libraries.io data to train a algorithms to identify patterns and uses the Libraries.io API to build an application that highlights popular projects and projects in decline.