Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (67 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007 11:26, Martin Lasarsch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here is the next version of the guiding principles, the 2nd draft.
> Cornelius fixed some bugs and changed other stuff from your feedback.
>
> I guess it makes sense to start a new thread, the old one is at
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2007-05/msg00208.html
> If this is new for you, i suggest to read also the old thread.
>
> It's also available on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Guiding_Principles
>
> Let's discuss the new version ...

# This is mostly text compression with the same meaning.

This document is addressing the openSUSE community and the occasional visitors 
of this site, providing documentation of the common understanding how the 
project works and describes the project guiding principles. 

[Alt#1:This document describes the guiding principles which drive the openSUSE 
project. It is addressing the openSUSE community and outside world providing 
documentation of the common understanding how the project works.]
[Alt#2:This document describes the guiding principles which drive the openSUSE 
project. It provides documentation of the common understanding how the 
project works for the openSUSE community and the outside world.]

# In both alternatives "outside world" sounds strange.

openSUSE Guiding Principles (short version) 
===========================================
We are the community that:
- provides easy access to the Free and Open Source Software. 
- innovate, integrate, polish, document, distribute, maintain and support one 
of the world's best Linux distributions. 
- is working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of 
the worldwide Free and Open Source community.

We value:
- our users 
- others and their work.
- freedom and openess in software, development, standards and choice,

We want to: 
- create the world's best Linux distribution
- make users happy
- foster innovation
- be open and work transparently
- work together with other projects 
- collaborate with other communities
- have a lot of fun!
...

Governance
----------
The board of maintainers is created to lead the project and has the following 
tasks:
...

# The statement about initial board creation can be dropped from Guiding 
Principles as a permanent document. 


-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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