more persona first drafts

why/personas.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ the work of scientists in their unit.
 Marco enjoys his work and the freedom of the academic environment
 but worries that there is no clear career path
 for people like him.
+The Bio-IT Project can help Marco by connecting him with other support staff in a similar position, to share knowledge and develop solutions to common problems together, and by providing relevant training to the scientists that Marco supports.
 
 #### Behaviours
 
@@ -63,55 +64,136 @@ for people like him.
 
 #### Motivations
 
-## PhD Student - Expert in Computational Techniques
+## [PhD Student - Expert in Computational Techniques](#phdexpert)
 
 #### Personal Details
 
+- already studied bioinformatics, computer science, or some other computational subject before starting their PhD project
+- works on some methodological project, probably developing a new computational approach or software associated with a novel technology
+
 #### Bio
 
+Melissa
+
 #### Behaviours
 
-#### Needs/Goals
+- push the limits of what can be done with the compute resources available locally
+- develop new software and pipelines for their research project
+- often support the computational work of their lab-mates
+- engage with the more technical Bio-IT discussions and events
+- may get involved with teaching and/or running sessions at programming group meetings/coding club sessions
+- teach themselves new things in absence of advanced training
+- Get most of their information from outside Bio-IT resources, as they work on "edge cases"
 
-#### Motivations
+#### Needs/Goals
 
-## PhD Student - Novice/Competent Practitioner in Computational Techiniques
+- complete and publish research project(s)
+- resources and support for sophisticated software development projects
+- strategies and tools for managing a large amount of data
 
-#### Personal Details
+#### Motivations
 
-#### Bio
+- interested in applying their technical skills to biological questions
+- know/work with people who share their interest in coding and technical topics
+- enjoys learning new to use new tools, programming languages, etc
 
-#### Behaviours
+## [PhD Student - Novice/Competent Practitioner in Computational Techiniques](#phdnovice)
 
-#### Needs/Goals
+#### Personal Details
 
-#### Motivations
+- education in biology-related discipline
+- no/very little previous bioinformatics experience
+- needs to pick up some computational skills for analysis of data produced in their project
 
-## PostDoc - Expert in Computational Techniques
+#### Bio
 
-#### Personal Details
+Mohamed excelled in his undergraduate and Masters studies
+in cellular biology and has now begun a PhD project at EMBL.
+His project involves the production of a large amount of imaging data
+that he now needs to learn how to manage and analyse.
+He knows that learning to program will be beneficial to his research career
+but he's interested in getting results,
+not so much in the technical details
+of the langauges and systems that he has to use.
+Most of what he wants to do right now is
+reproducing analyses in the papers that he reads,
+but he expects to need to write some of his own code
+to perform the exact analyses and data visualisation figures that he will need for his thesis.
+He can get some guidance from his supervisor
+and the one computational biologist post-doc in his group,
+but they are both very busy
+and often aren't available to answer Mohamed's questions.
+Bio-IT can help Mohamed by providing him with training
+to run the analyses and produce the figures that he needs.
+Rather than wait for a course that he needs,
+he might follow the material on his own.
+Bio-IT also provides him with ways to get to know
+other people at EMBL with whom he can discuss what he needs to do
+and guidance in best practices that will make his computational science
+more robust and reproducible in the long term.
 
-#### Bio
 
 #### Behaviours
 
+- attends beginner-level Bio-IT courses
+- asks questions of their lab-mates, or on chat.embl.org, or at a drop-in session
+- looks for information
+- pursues "good enough" practices in order to get results
+
 #### Needs/Goals
 
+- complete and publish research project(s)
+- learn enough programming to be able to analyse data and produce publication-ready visualisations
+
 #### Motivations
 
-## PostDoc - Novice/Competent Practitioner in Computational Techiniques
+- learn skills that will help with a career in research
+- cares that something works, not whether it's optimised
+
+## [PostDoc - Expert in Computational Techniques](#postdocexpert)
 
 #### Personal Details
 
+- combined expertise of computational approaches and domain of research
+- very busy
+- supervises students and research assistants who may need to learn more computing skills
+
 #### Bio
 
+May completed a PhD project on protein-protein interactions
+in a recently-discovered cellular signalling pathway
+and has spent the years since working on
+mutliple projects to follow up some of the findings of that project.
+These projects involve multiple different types of experiment and data,
+which she wants to integrate together to maximise the novelty and impact
+of the subsequent publications.
+May has an encyclopedic knowledge of her research area
+and can easy develop the new pipelines and
+small pieces of software
+that she needs to analyse her results.
+However,
+she must divide her time between
+these projects,
+writing papers and applications
+for grants and group leader positions,
+and supervising students and staff.
+Bio-IT can help May by
+providing training
+and information
+for the members of her research projects,
+and by providing resources
+that help her to get her work done as quickly and easily as possible,
+
 #### Behaviours
 
+- only interacts with Bio-IT when something isn't working
+- influences the way that other people in their group do things
+
 #### Needs/Goals
 
 #### Motivations
 
-## Scientist at Non-Heidelberg EMBL Site
+## PostDoc - Novice/Competent Practitioner in Computational Techiniques
 
 #### Personal Details