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+## Target Audience
+### Newbies
+Want to run basic federated data analyses
+#### Prerequisites
+- Know how to do data analysis in a centralized setting
+
+### Data scientist
+Knows what the newbie knows. Want more control over their analyses. Potentially develop their own
+federated algorithms.
+
+#### Prerequisites
+- Basic (!) python knowledge
+- Experience with command line
+- Knows how to do federated analysis using the vantage6 UI
+
+### Sys admin (not targeted)
+People who install vantage6. We are probably not going to cover this topic.
+
+#### Prerequisites
+- Lots of prerequisites
+
+## Objectives
+- understanding federated learning
+- understanding v6
+  - Understand the future of vantage6
+- setting up v6 infrastructure (very difficult, requires different prerequisites)
+- running analysis with federated learning
+- Creating algorithm
+- make your data available to a network