Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fredag den 5. november 2010 14:43:50 skrev Jos Poortvliet:
> At the conf one piece of feedback was that we need a single-sentence
> mission to describe what we want - very much like what fedora has:

Ah, smart people at the conference :-)
 
> The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open
> source software and content as a collaborative community.
>
> I think I like their mission and it's also pretty correct 

Well, their mission is quite sympathetic and I'm glad to have Fedora around, 
but if you read between the lines it really means: "unproductive, bleeding 
edge, experimental toy for geeks". And I'm pretty sure that most of the 
openSUSE community wants something rather different - fortunately most of the 
strategy discussion so far has confirmed this.

> - so we
> brainstormed on what would fit openSUSE. Suggestions are very welcome, we
> currently have:
>
> The openSUSE project's mission is to unlock the posibilities of computers
> to users around the globe using the power and flexibility of Linux.
>
> but it's far from perfect. Somehow it should mention we focus on
> flexibility and power ("make things as simple as possible but no
> simpler"), it should be ambitious (eg worldwide blabla), focussed on
> end-users etc - the requirements are clear as they come from the rest of
> the strategy discusion. But now, how to phrase it in one sentence?

Sorry to keep repeating myself, but the keywords here should definitely be 
productive, powerful and professional :-) 

How about something along these lines: 
"In the openSUSE project  we work together to create a professional and 
powerful Linux distribution, which lets people be productive."
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