[Tor www-team] Proposed personas

Thu Jan 9 20:57:29 UTC 2014

I'd add the following categories.

Whistleblower - they may only use tor once.
User - they use tor for safety or simply to get around censorship.
       When i use tor on Amtrak i fall into this category.

     Under User there might be Stalking victim.

I think it is a mistake to try to factor out cultures or groups in
descriptions because that makes us less likely to think about languages
and cultural constraints a person might need to work around.

I do feel that accessibility to sight impared people is also another
very important category.

- --- Marina

> 
> This gets away from names, which reference specific cultures (Habib
> the dissident implies a foreign leaning to the persona. Dissidents
> might be located anywhere in the world)
> 
> Reference the personas by capitalizing the name (The Journalist vs.
> the journalist)
> 
> Silviu. On Jan 9, 2014 12:17 PM, "Sam E. Lawrence"
> <selbrit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For these personas (which I think are a good idea), does it make
>> more sense for us to use names that are easier to remember, so
>> while we're having conversations we can easily recallthem? I know
>> for myself, I'm going to have a hard time remembering whether
>> it's Angela or Tony that's the journalist, and I think their last
>> names are irrelevant.
>> 
>> Does it make more sense to use persona types like:
>> 
>> *S*am the *S*tudent *J*ulie the *J*ournalist *R*ob the (Security)
>> *R*esearcher *D*ave the *D*octor (or *D*onor) *E*arl the (DevOps)
>> *E*ngineer *A*dam the (Political) *A*ctivist.
>> 
>> You know, Bob the Builder sort of thing. Easy to remember.
>> 
>> Thoughts from the team, particularly those who will be involved
>> in documentation and guides?
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Rey Dhuny <rey at spcshp.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Max Jakob Mass:
>>> 
>>>> I've added the persona of a cautious activist under an
>>>> orpressive
>>> regime:
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much for adding that persona. I have made some
>>> tweaks to it for readability:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website?action=diff&version=31&old_version=30
>>>
>>>
>>> 
Rey
>>> 
>>> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 11:15, Max Jakob Maass wrote:
>>> 
> I've added the persona of a cautious activist under an orpressive
> regime:
> 
> ``` ## Habib Itamar, Dissident, 24
> 
> Habib is a political activist under an orpressive regime which
> uses heavy internet filtering. From a friend, he received a USB
> stick with a bootable Tails Live System. He does not know how Tor
> works and what he has to keep in mind when using it, and will not
> connect the system to the internet without knowing more about this
> (he can only access the version of the website we will distribute
> with Tails). ```
> 
> Max
> 
> On 09.01.2014 12:06, Rey Dhuny wrote:
> 
> I've since added the persona for a Tor Relay Operator:
> 
> ``` ## Stephan Earls, DevOps Engineer, 27
> 
> Stephan is a DevOps Engineer for a startup where he is responsible 
> for network infrastructure, automation and data management. As a 
> strong believer in the Tor Project he has been a Tor Relay
> Operator for a little over a year and has encouraged two of his
> colleagues to do the same. ```
> 
> Rey
> 
> On Thursday, 9 January 2014 at 10:36, Rey Dhuny wrote:
> 
> I've taken the liberty of sketching out some personas so we have 
> somewhere to start from and build on:
> 
> ``` ## Tony Johnson, Student, aged 21
> 
> Tony is a second year student at university who is studying 
> international business. Tony has recently heard about Tor through
> recent mentions in the national news and would like to discover
> more about it Particularly he has heard from a friend that it could
> be used to protect his web browsing whilst using the university
> campus public wifi.
> 
> ## Angela Thomas, Journalist, aged 39
> 
> Angela is a journalist who has been writing about online privacy 
> for the past year and would like to write a feature about Tor. 
> Although she has previously experimented with Tor's browser bundle
> she would like further information of how the Tor infrastructure
> functions and the technical details behind how it enables online
> anonymity.
> 
> ## Stephanie Davis, Security Researcher, aged 28
> 
> Stephanie is a security researcher working for a think tank. She 
> has been a user of Tor since December 2011 and is a strong 
> proponent for an open web. Since finding out about Tor, Stephanie 
> has become involved in the Tor community contributing fixes and 
> features to the Tor code base and engaging with other Tor 
> contributers using the mailing lists and IRC.
> 
> ## Amrit Ghuna, Doctor, aged 58
> 
> Amrit is a Doctor of Pharmacy who has been practicing for 19 years.
> Although he now lives in suburbia outside the city, before he moved
> himself and his family to Sweden he suffered political oppression
> at the hands of the government, eventually being labeled a
> dissident. After seeing first hand the effects of a restricted and
> monitored internet he was enthused to read about Tor in the local
> newspaper and would very much like to make a donation to the Tor
> Project. ```
> 
> I've also added it to the wiki: 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Website#ProposedPersonas
>
>  Thoughts welcome and requested!
> 
> 
> Rey
> 
> 
> 
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