User Personas

• James Verity, age 21, Media student at U Michigan. Does Philosophy, Economics in his spare time. Has a lot of ideas for helping the world, but lacks the capital, motivation, and time to implement them. Wants to share his ideas.
• Celia Dale, age 46, Mother of two, active on the local council, works part time in a charity shop on Marchmont Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wants to share ideas about gardening with her friends, as well as ideas as to how to fight the liberal democrats in the next election. Likes to share facts as well as ideas - "Tulips need more water. We should water them more on a different system than the daisies." "The LibDems have cut 76% of funding for local nurseries. We should set up a community nursery."
• Oliver Little, age 34, founder of four failed start ups, currently working on a semantic web machine translation crowd-sourced correction startup in Silicon Valley. Wants to be able to brainstorm ideas more, so that he can week out the shit ones early.
• Kyle Trondheil, age 76, pretty awesome sailor in Norway. Retired. Wants to share ideas about how youth today can do more wholesome activities, like carpentry. Has specific ideas about what would be easy to build and easy for youth to get together on. Also, wants to share ideas about how to appreciate Christ more to his local church community.
• Rafik al-Banat, age 28, father of three daughters, lives in Tangiers. Wants to share political ideas, needs a forum for broadcasting and a solid userbase. However, wants to develop his ideas more by spouting ideas.